Paint Marks
You’ve seen them while waiting for traffic light to change. Different colored lines, arrows, circles and squares, spray painted on the street. They appear to be completely random. Sometimes [...]
Thoughts On Going Forward
It’s a foggy morning here at the lake. So foggy that I can’t see the water, let alone the shore on the other side. What’s visible is the bit of road right in front of me. [...]
Bennie Mulder And The Used Tires
Got the news today that Ben Mulder died last night. I shed a few tears when I heard about it. I wondered where those tears came from since I haven’t seen the man in 30 years. He wasn’t family or [...]
Grandma Thompson
It’s April 11, 2014. Grandma Thompson would have been 114 today. Practically no one lives that long. She made it to 90, which is a pretty fair go at it. A full blood Swede, her parents came over [...]
Cool Words In Heated Moments
Starting life over in a new place includes finding new people to replace the familiar ones you came to depend on. In your old place, your dentist and doctor, hair stylist and manicurist, [...]
What Kind Of Tree
Ever ask someone what you think is a really good question? And when you get the answer it’s so obvious you’re embarrassed? Last October we moved into a 50 year-old fixer upper house on a lake [...]
Of Lemon Pledge And Little Things
During my studies at Phoenix Seminary I was a full-time graduate student, worked full-time on staff at a church and had a couple part-time jobs. It was a gloriously exhausting season of life. One [...]
Bad Day
9:45 AM on Friday, June 8, 2007 at Aqua-Tots Swim School in Mesa, Arizona. Ron was working on his laptop while Paul and I were sitting at the meet and greet desk behind the glass. A guy in a [...]