Category: Personal

One of my regular readers (when I write regularly ;-)), Jan Mckenzie, asked in a comment to the previous post (Tools) if I would include a self-portrait. He must have realized that the request would result in more than just…

Arthur Holmes, a former philosophy professor at Wheaton College, wrote a beautiful little book titled All Truth is God’s Truth. In it, he argued what Paul argues in Romans 1 and 2 and John puts forth in the first chapter…

There have been two major dreams in my life. Early on I wanted to be writer, especially a writer of novels and it appears that if I can keep on course I will finish my first novel, Beginnings, the first…

As I slowly work myself back into my former daily regimen, recovering from almost five months of an insane work schedule, I questioned whether I wanted to restart my blogging efforts. After all, it takes a lot of time and…

I am finishing my overloaded work stint today and I will be back to writing again shortly. With God’s grace and peace, here is hoping that nuggets from Beyond The Rim… will be arriving on a regular schedule going forward….

It is barely summer, though the modest heat wave we are experiencing would belie that statement. Yet, while my fevered dreams did not have anything to do with love triangles and fairies, they did have a lot to do with…

I had plan an early start this morning, but that was waylaid by the FBI executing a Search and Seizure Warrant against my next door neighbor at 6 AM, blocking our whole street. While they sort out the mess, I…

I know this may sound repetitive, but this job has been hard work. They say many things get harder as you get older, but while I expected the work to be taxing, considering the schedule and the resource considerations, the…

When I was in high school, I had a Latin teacher by the name of Mrs. Hague. She was the classic classicist: older, bookish, spindly, and utterly devoted to learning. She once told me that the real difference in my…

Training is exhausting for me, physically as well as mentally. This week we did the first training class I had been scrambling to get the materials ready for. Even though last weekend was Easter, I had to prepare to do…