Recent life

• Nothing Much Here . . .

  just a few ramblings about my day.  It’s 1:30 am on Thursday and later today I head up to Lewisburg for my weekly visit with Desiree.  This is also a week that I stay overnight with friends in Elysburg so I can pick Desiree up after school on Friday and bring her home for the [...]

  September 25th, 2008

• Funkytown

  Every now and again I find myself in a funk.  I have no idea what brings these spells on, but they seem to strike me on a fairly regular basis.  One day I am feeling fine, and the next (like today, instance) I am not.  At times like these I think about all of my [...]

  September 8th, 2008

• “Tears” by Frederick Buechner

  Jan, at Yearning for God (see link below), recently quoted Frederick Buechner (one of my favorite writers) on the subject of tears:
  "You never know what may cause tears. The sight of the Atlantic Ocean can do it, or a piece of music, or a face you’ve never seen before. A pair of somebody’s [...]

  August 29th, 2008

• Sleepless in Pottstown

  Okay, it doesn’t have the same ring as “Sleepless in Seattle,” but it is true.  Insomnia has struck again, and so here I am at 2:53 am, blogging when I should be asleep.  I tried to sleep, laying in bed for over an hour, but I could not.  Too many things on my mind, [...]

  August 29th, 2008

• To Speak or Not to Speak

  I started blogging almost three and a half years ago, and the third post I wrote was entitled “Deadly Poison.”  It was about the dangers of the tongue and referenced James 3:8.  I was reminded of this post recently by Neil Locke, a new friend I discovered on the nets, when he posted an [...]

  August 27th, 2008