(Our nation is living in lockdown due to the coronavirus. The news is grim. Survival is critical, physically and economically. It helps to put things in perspective. I hope this Weakly Post will lighten your spirits and give you reason for hope.) The Luck of the Draw There are 52 cards in a deck and …
To paraphrase W. C. Fields, “There comes a time when we must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” This is one of those times. ********** We’ve got a mess on our hands. Routines have been replaced with the reality of quarantine. Once unthinkable among Americans, it has been dusted off and …
“For in one hour so great riches are come to nothing.” Revelation 18:17 ********** It was bound to happen. Everybody knew it would. When, or how, nobody knew. Such is the way with plagues. Cry safety, and the world collapses. Chaos rules. Chaos has no rules but one: crap happens. Since rolls of toilet paper …
Wednesday was my birthday. I got a new pair of shoes. ********** Birthdays at advancing age tend to be heavy affairs. No more hot-breath doozies that youth brag about. Such are now only fumes of faded dreams long past. Getting long in the tooth tends to load us down with burdens grievous to be borne, …