I am living on borrowed time. It’s a truth I don’t often think about, and which hit me as I fought my way home from an unexpectedly long shift in…
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“Quae tribuit deus, ante oculos non semper habemus.” “We do not always have before our eyes the things God has bestowed.”[1] his proverb was recorded from a common folk of…
Leave a CommentWell, today is a day of not working. I don’t just mean that I have the day off, which is fantastic, but the TV isn’t working right, the car isn’t…
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“She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for…
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The following is a transcript of a live interview I recently had with the Little Dude in My Head on the show “Stumbling Around the Neighborhood in the Obscenely Wee…
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What do I do when that fickle Muse deserts me, Especially when a Monday Musing’s due? She’s missing and I cannot find her, So I’ve typed up drivel through and…
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What anxiety and care and hard work we put into temporal things – some of which are fine or even noble, some of which are wrong. I am…
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The phrase came to mind as clear skies and acres of green pecan trees flew past me without cheering me up. It’s an old adage that actually makes some sense.…
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I apologize ahead of time for my next book. I have four toddlers, you see, and a stressful full time job to support them, and more often than not I…
Leave a CommentMusings on the attitude our modern age tends to have toward true wonders in life. Reading Thomas Madden’s excellent work on the history of Venice this morning has jogged in…
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