Category: Personal

We are now eleven days into the new year and this is my first post in over a month. My site has been reconditioned and the underlying programs upgraded, so I am ready to face another year or two of…

The last week or so I have either been developing training or giving it. Last night I pulled an all-nighter. I will be back at regular posting by the weekend at the latest and hopefully get my Hubble Tuesday up…

I came across this quote on a well-written blog that is suffering from postimus rarerus. Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. Lawrence Kasdan As a writer, I can relate to that….

The last time I had a full-time, non contract job (January to August 2006), my blogging became intermittent at best. I start a new job, as an employee of Computer Science Corporation, on December 4th. My wife is very happy….

Back on August 11, 2004, I wrote a post on prayer called Personal Prayers Written Down, in which I used a prayer I wrote for my daughter as an example. It is one of my most read archived posts. People…

One of the reasons my bloggging has been lighter since August than I intended was that I am starting a new business, going back to my roots in photography, especially portrait and wedding photography. As I move closer to retirement,…

If you think the real issue in biblical translation is linguistic, i.e. being equivalent to the original text vs. adapting the text to the inclusive principles of modern social constructs to just name one issue, you would be wrong. The…

We have owned three Akitas, a Japanese breed introduced into the U.S. after WWII. Orignally bred to guard the Emperor and protect villages from bears (three Akitas have brought down a marauding bear), the enigmatic large breed is powerfully built…

One of the blogs I visit every so often (if you read my history I was Episcopal for 27 years), is the Midwest Conservative Journal, an ongoing critique of all things Episcopal. In a recent post, Christopher Johnson talked about…

Stopped by your blog after a long absence and saw your post on sailing without a rudder. Your comments were closed, so maybe you will wander by and see this… Please consider that rather than being without a rudder you…