Tonight I went with Joey and Roger to pick up Joey’s first car. I found it a couple days ago on Craig’s List. We have been looking for a while for the right one. Joey had some parameters [as most of us who are car shopping do] — it had to be small, good on…

This passage has been rattling around in my head the past few days. Actually I was remembering the off-key singing of the big guy, Lastik, in Remember the Titans when he is trying to help motivate and encourage the team and he sings the phrase, “even the youth shall grow weary … but they who…

As I was driving to Starbucks this morning, I was listening to NPR as I often do. Garrison Keillor does this short piece called Writer’s Almanac and reads a piece of poetry. This morning’s poem was very familiar — if you have graduated from high school or college, chances are you have received a card…

Hobby Lobby only plays Christian muzak. Did you know that? There must be some sort of company out there that takes both current and older song and hymns and turns them into muzak style, and that is what they play. This is not necessarily a bad thing as I often find it interesting what they…