My iPod’s Most Listened To Songs for 2011

January 1, 2012.Reading time 32 minutes.

It’s New Year’s Eve, which means it’s that time again. Time for the yearly peek at my iPod/iPhone for the “most played” songs for 2011. As with most years, there’s a delicious assortment here. The fun is in looking at the list and determining exactly why these songs made the list, and remembering the times […]

Resolve To Not Resolve

December 31, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

Didn’t make any New Year’s Resolutions last year. Won’t this year either. And this is from a guy that used to make them regularly. More than this, I encourage you to join me. And I hold out a strange hope that you might find yourself achieving even MORE of your goals/resolutions if you do…er, don’t. […]

500

December 1, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

According to Blogger, this is my 500th blog entry. That’s a whompin’ load ‘o writing, seems to me. Hard to imagine it, really. I started this blog using some software that no longer exists and whose name I can no longer recall. Then, I moved it to Rapidweaver, when I re-did my whole website, using […]

Tres Cosas

July 24, 2009.Reading time 3 minutes.

The most recent self-disclosing Facebook game, and my answers….EF Three things of me! You’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with the 3’s of YOU. At the end, choose 26 people to be tagged. You have to tag me so really you just need 25 more people. If I tagged you, it’s […]

Auto-Matically Crazy

February 28, 2009.Reading time 11 minutes.

I had a hard disk crash last week, which means I am now hopelessly behind in Facebook notes. Yes, I want to do the album cover, and my 15 “desert isle” CDs, and my Musical Facts. Those are all cool. But I don’t have time to do those today. However, these questions, given to me […]

Yeats Five Book Meme

February 12, 2009.Reading time 1 minute.

DIRECTIONS1. Take five books off your bookshelf.2. Book #1 — first sentence3. Book #2 — last sentence on page fifty4. Book #3 — second sentence on page one hundred5. Book #4 — next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty6. Book #5 — final sentence of the book7. Make the five sentences into […]

Sixteen Random Things About Me

February 9, 2009.Reading time 27 minutes.

Dallas Morning News reporter , Jeffery Weiss wrote this interesting story that ran in this weekend’s paper. It’s all about the phenomenon of “25 Random Things.” It does seem to be spreading like wildfire, as is Facebook itself. I can tell you from my own non-scientific experience that folks are joining Facebook right and left […]

Bleeding Purple Podcast

April 16, 2006.Reading time 1 minute.

Leif Hanson is a podcaster who has created an interesting religious-based podcast called “Bleeding Purple Podcast.” And old internet friend (meaning: I’ve known him virtually for many years, not that he’s a geezer) sent him a copy of “Purple Land,” and he liked it enough to use it in a promo for his show… Hansen’s […]

My Persistent Schizophrenia. I muse on the bifurcation of my two loves, and the paranoia I’ve always had about it.

July 13, 2005.Reading time 18 minutes.

The two loves of my life are working in the church and playing music. I have never done a very good job at bringing them together. And I’m about at a point in my life where I’ve pretty well decided I never will. That doesn’t trouble me the way it used to. In some ways, […]

Credo-bytes

June 25, 2005.Reading time 18 minutes.

This is an ever-expanding list of quotable quotes that shape my belief and life. It’s long. But spend a little time here. I promise there are gems you’ve never heard before. EF “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your […]