I just started a new job, working as an EA (educational assistant) substitute for a local school district. You would think as a substitute, my job calls would be sporadic, but every day I’m working somewhere. There are ten schools in the district. In a five-day school week, I worked at three different schools and have already had a snow day. It’s a lot like starting a new job every…
I’ve worked off and on throughout my life, and I’ve held different types of jobs. I was a dental technician in the Air Force. I’ve worked at Meijer in the toy department. I’ve done custodial work. I worked for two years as a teacher at a Christian school, but the most daring job I ever held was at a local bus company. I knew the owners because they were faithful…
Last Saturday, my son-in-law, Donnie, invited me to go to the shooting range with the family. I hadn’t been shooting in years, and I’d only shot a shotgun twice in my entire lifetime, but I had never attempted to shoot skeet before, so I went along. We drove to a shotgun shooting range about an hour north of us. Then Donnie set up the skeet launcher. The only way that…
Before our mission team left for New York City, we knew that Missionary Ron Taylor did “subway evangelism.” We don’t have subways in Cincinnati, Ohio, so there was not one member of our seven-person missions team that wasn’t looking forward to an evening of “subway evangelism.” But the devil was really working against it. Subway evangelism was scheduled for Wednesday. We planned to leave about 5:00 pm so we could…
I’ve heard people say that New Yorkers are the rudest people on the planet. They bump and jostle you as they rush past you and don’t even have the courtesy to apologize or say “excuse me.” I have poor equilibrium, so as people crowded around me, I bumped into them. Being a polite Cincinnatian, I said, “Excuse me.” I probably said it four or five times to several different people. …
The New Year represents a new beginning; a time to re-think, re-organize, and start over with a clean slate. And as 2013 came to a close, people all across the country were looking back at the year in retrospect. What was accomplished? What goals were met? What resolutions did they keep? What relationships were established? Are they sitting better financially than they were a year ago? And a lot of…
Coming through St. Louis on my way home to Cincinnati two days before Easter in 1996, my Subaru station wagon was making a horrendous howl every time I accelerated. I pulled into Firestone about 4:30 on Friday afternoon to get my car checked and didn’t hit the road again until 9:00 – in a rental car. My car was in need of a new transaxle, so it had to be…
As some of you may know, I’ve been on vacation. When I go on vacation, I try not to take a vacation from writing My Blog or The Lord’s Page. I attempt to keep up with it everywhere I go. But this time, things got a little overwhelming and I had to take a break. We left Cincinnati on June 14th headed to Kansas. I posted on my website that…
From our driveway in Cincinnati, Ohio to our son’s driveway at Fort Riley, Kansas, it’s a good eleven-hour drive. Factor in gas stops and restroom breaks, along with at least one lunch stop, and we quickly add an hour to the trip. Depending on how many stops you make, you can easily add two hours to your drive. So on Thursday morning, I took off for Junction City, Kansas, with…
In marketing my daughter’s biography, I’ve been told that I need to develop a speaking platform. I’ve given it a lot of thought and put together notes on a talk that I felt certain would be of interest. Then one day last week I was talking to a friend and giving her some guidance from God’s Word. That’s when it hit me. I could be an inspirational speaker! Someone with…