Fighting the Battle
The perfect life does not exist. I may have thought it did at one time. A lot of kids with idyllic childhoods may have thought that way. Was mine idyllic?… Read more »
This can’t be real…
Football season in Korea used to mean getting up at 2 or 3 in the morning (depending on Daylight Savings Time) and going on base to see a favorite team… Read more »
Ignorance as Blessing: II
When I was working on my Masters degree, the graduation requirement was to produce a portfolio, the contents of which would require defending before a panel of professors. Part of… Read more »
Ignorance as Blessing
I’d like to take this short moment to tell you about a theory I’ve developed over my years of experience in the language training and testing field; and maybe even… Read more »
Where have the poets gone?
I’ve had some email interaction with my brothers lately (they’re smart enough not to deal with Facebook or its like) about a band famous in the 60s and 70s (their… Read more »
Cold?
Yesterday, the temperatures got down into the teens, so of course hating the cold while I ride like I do, I just had to get out. The main goal of… Read more »
What Really Works
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable,… Read more »
A Fortunate Fall…
No, this isn’t about a bike crash, or even my wife’s recently broken ribs. Those things are never so fortunate as this, if anyone could find any blessings in them… Read more »
Vanity?
“Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote… Read more »
A Love better than Life
1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you;my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.2 So I have looked… Read more »