The Saints

February 8, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

I know, I know. A Super Bowl game is not going to erase all of Hurricane Katrina. It doesn’t make “everything” better. But to listen to folks from the Gulf Coast talk, it’s the best thing that’s happened there in a long time. I’m so glad the Saints won, and (with all respect to the […]

Chris and Val

February 7, 2010.Reading time 2 minutes.

(catching up on Daily Grats…) Sunday: Chris and ValWe watched the Super Bowl on Sunday over at Chris and Val’s house. It was nice to get to spend some time with them. Dennise, Chris and me have now officially known each other for a few weeks more than 20 years. We each met each other, […]

Maria the Gymnast

February 6, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

(catching up on Daily Grats…) Maria had a gymnastics meet Saturday night in South Arlington. It was her first in several months and in a new gymnastics league. She did *great.* She had her best overall meet ever, and did very well in every event. What I was pleased by, though, was how confident and […]

Connections

February 5, 2010.Reading time 15 minutes.

I’ve written a lot about the band during these past few years. So, some of this is a repeat. We’ve got another show tonight and, with any luck, we’ll surpass a total of $90,000 raised for missions, with a very good chance of standing at the cusp of $100, 000. That’s just beyond imagining for […]

Andy Gullahorn’s Song, "That Guy"

February 5, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’m almost always haunted by songs. On just about every day of life, a song comes from somewhere and swirls around inside my head. I know I’m not alone in this. The best of them can stay around for weeks. Sometimes months. The current song haunting my soul is from Andy Gullahorn, and it’s called […]

Daily Grat: Six Feet Under

February 3, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

Given my last “Daily Gratitude” you might imagine I’ve been thinking about death. And eventually thinking about death always gets me back to “Six Feet Under,” the TV series that ran on HBO during the first half of this decade. We came late to the party with this show, not really finding it until halfway […]

Daily Grat: The Pull of the Lifeforce

February 3, 2010.Reading time 8 minutes.

I figured that the feeling I am having right now would happen at some point, I just didn’t figure it would happen this soon in the year of “Daily Gratitudes.” I figured that, at some point, I’d bump up against a day where gratitude for anything would be hard to find, and I’d be wracking […]

Daily Grat: Preaching

February 1, 2010.Reading time 9 minutes.

It is a great blessing.It is a great curse.It is my highest privilegeIt is an albatross around my neck.It is something I look forward to.It is something I dread. It’s preaching. Lots of folks do it now and then. But the unique set of women and men who do it week-in and week-out is really […]

Daily Grat: Conversations with my Daughter

January 31, 2010.Reading time 2 minutes.

So, last night, about 11:30, I stop by Maria’s room to see if she’s asleep. She wasn’t. She was re-reading the last pages of “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief,” a book that she had been devouring all week. I’m always more than pleased to see her reading instead of trying to watch TV. And, […]

Daily Grat: Sleeping Late

January 30, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

I probably don’t get enough sleep most of the time. I know this. It’s an issue. I’m not alone. But often, if there’s nothing to do on a Saturday, I get the chance to sleep late. This morning, it was until 9:30…which will seem pretty late to some, and still pretty early to others. It […]