This past Saturday found me caught up in the mayhem that is the modern Christmas season. I needed to run to Walmart to get a couple of items—just 2! Of all things, can you imagine it, we ran out of coffee…in the Bice household? That’s another story. For reasons I’ll…
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…
After my recent episode at the end of a Sunday morning service (I wrote about it last week), it was decided I needed a break. At first, I balked at the word “need.” I mean, a vacation is always nice, but need suggests some kind of deficiency. When I got…
About a half-mile from our house, at the south end of our street, the city has built a nice recreation path running along the Rock River, through Sinnissippi Park, and ending at Hoover Park. It’s a great path for a Saturday afternoon walk. We took advantage of the milder late-winter…
I made the same mistake—twice—and didn’t even know I was doing it. In June 2017, I went on my first solo multi-day backpacking trip to the Kettle Moraine State Forest Southern Unit in Wisconsin. I had planned on a five-night trip, covering about 55 miles or so on the Ice…
Few of us alive today have witnessed such a confluence of “storms.” The major front we’re all dealing with, of course, is the “virus crisis” and everything related to it. Few of us appreciate having our freedoms curtailed, being told to stay home as much as possible. Health care workers…
It’s a quite natural thing, really, to want protection from or deliverance out of a crisis. An ominous diagnosis threatens my health. The recent stock market mayhem threatens my financial future. A global pandemic threatens…well, everyone in some way. The rising power of communist China threatens our national security. Radical…
For the last few weeks, almost everywhere you go, songs of the holiday season fill the air. Some radio stations have even been playing only Christmas music since before Thanksgiving, probably because of the shorter Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period. Have you paid any attention to what’s playing? If so, you’ve probably not…
