If you’d to know how I was almost murdered on my way to Disneyland or how The Incredible Shrinking Man has affected my whole theological outlook, follow these links to a couple of blogs I did as a guest for the terrific Criminal Element website: How I Hitchhiked to Disneyland and Almost Died Everything I … Read more
So, okay, here’s something way up there on the “Really Weird” scale. It happened this way. I went to Omaha to spend Memorial Day weekend with my wife’s family. We left the Twin Cities Friday evening, drove to Des Moines, stayed the night, and arrived in Omaha on Saturday. We visited cemeteries, placed flowers on … Read more
I am nothing if not hopeful. Hope rises in me, eternal. Every December as the old year draws to a close and a new one stands on my threshold, I think, This is the year. For what? For becoming the person I would like to be. And what is that? A vision so mundane I’m … Read more
Last month, on November 16, to be exact, I reached what many people consider one of the notable mileposts on the journey through life: I turned sixty. What do I know at sixty? My life is very different from what I’d imagined a man’s life to be at this age. When I was much younger, … Read more
I graduated from high school just over forty years ago. (Please don’t do the age calculation.) This past weekend, I attended the 40th reunion of the 1969 graduating class of Hood River High School in Hood River, Oregon. It was, all things considered, a pretty remarkable experience. At some point in your lives, most of … Read more