DO NOT FRET (DO GOOD)
How can we not fret?! These are scary and troublesome times.
How can we not fret?! These are scary and troublesome times.
I recently found out something about Ed Sullivan I didn’t know.
Jesus attended the gathering of generals and admirals at Quantico last week.
It was a bad week for Trump. A good week for Jesus.
First they came for undocumented criminals. Then they came for undocumented field workers. Then they came for foreign students.
Dung beetles eat four times their weight every day. They leave no poop behind.
How did the rose ever open its heart and give this world all of its beauty?
Last Sunday one of my readers “unsubscribed.” I was shocked when I found out why.
Last Sunday Paula and I crossed the Potomac River to check out the Smoketown Brewery in Brunswick, Maryland
I ran into an old friend I haven’t seen for serveral years and for whom time has been unkind. I silently gasp.
Thanks to Old Scratch I’ll be posting a reflection on something I find remarkable in and around our world most every Sunday morning.
Read more about the devil’s role in my life in “This Little Light of Mine” under Let Love Arise in the menu bar.

I reached a personal milestone yesterday. Alas, there were no fireworks and no parades.

Soccer is a beautiful game, my sons told me years ago. I couldn’t see what they saw, but I’m beginning to.

I'm a soccer fan but not a fanatic. Alas, the game releases the inner barbarian.

Today is my birthday. I was born in 1947. Let's hear if for the boomers!
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