Recent life

• The Death Report for the Day I Was Born – November 9th

  123,884 People
   
  People who died on November 09 (various years)

  2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director
  2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist
  2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India
  2004 - Iris Chang, American author
  2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
  2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter
  2003 - [...]

  November 8th, 2008

• Even More Random Facts About Me

  Debi recently complained that all I do is blog about politics anymore.  She is mostly correct, though I have been posting non-political and more religious stuff on my blogs “The Word” and “word and Table.”  Anyway, she tagged me to do the “Seven Random Things About Me” meme, in order to get my mind off [...]

  October 29th, 2008

• 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