For better or worse, I don’t take the time to read many novels. I read biographies, some history, and a good bit of other non-fiction works, mostly connected to my work as a pastor. Recently, however, a title in the book list of a club I’m in caught my eye,…
Late February, several years ago now, my bride and I went for a bike ride on an unusually warm day—well into the upper 50s. Well, that’s warm for February in northwest Illinois. The weather had been like that for several days, so all the snow and ice were gone, and…
When my dad’s health deteriorated enough that he had to move out of his home to an assisted living facility, it fell largely to me to clean out his place and put it up for sale. In the process of going through everything, I came across a cache of old…
