If at first you don’t succeed, then try and fail again! Well, that’s not how the saying goes, but that’s what Phillip Vasto did. Mr. Vasto hails from Brooklyn, New York, but on a recent trip to Arizona, he decided to climb a mountain near Flagstaff. Most of us think…
For the past two years, babies have been a constant in our home. Things happen in these early years of life that moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas insist they must remember to bring up at the wedding! Our oldest grandson, for example, had the cutest way of saying some things….
Like many people this time of year, I got to looking at the calendar and compared how much time is left in the year with how much “vacation time” I have available. More than I’ll use, it seems, but thought I should make a stab at it! I did feel…
It all started, as I recall, with something like the ol’ cup-of-water-above-the-door prank. For the unenlightened, take a cup of water and rest it on top of a slightly ajar door, then when the next person enters, the cup tips toward the entering party, dousing them with 8 ounces of…
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…
As you surely know—especially if you had the day off work!—this past Monday was a federal holiday, Martin Luther King Jr Day. In a few weeks on February 15, we’ll get another day off for Presidents Day, as it’s been known since 1971. How will you celebrate Presidents Day? Take…
True, it’s the title of another one of those romance “songs of the season” as the singer wants to know whether she gets to be the date on New Year’s Eve, or if she’ll be left wondering what the guy’s doing. Nevertheless, isn’t that the frequent question of conversation at…
I recently had the opportunity to attend a ministry conference in Riverside, California—about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. I was warned that it would be hot and dry, and indeed it was for two of the three full days I was there. That didn’t deter me from taking my…
Have you ever noticed that no matter how “new & improved” a so-called upgrade is that it never comes without some kind of aggravation? So we’ve just updated the website, and for novices like this pastor, the process is never simple, smooth, and carefree. I have a history of this,…
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