A Tale of Two Festivals

  I know it’s fall, because it is festival time in our area. We celebrate the harvest with things like a Soybean Festival, a Corn Festival, and a Sheep Festival. You can attend the Old Thresher’s Reunion, Farmers Days, or simply The Name-of-My-Town...

This is How We Welcome Fall

      Not by hanging from a tree. Though, you are welcome to do so if you wish. But, I prefer the Mike Herron method of celbrating autumn. Mike visited us here in the Midwest several years ago. I think he might have been living in Texas at the time....

2,977 Reasons to Stop Yelling at Each Other

  2,753 at the World Trade Center. 184 at the Pentagon. 40 in a quiet field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I don’t write about politics or social justice. Although, I would still be interested if we ever develop a cabinet office for National Mother....

Why We Work

  Labor Day made me think again of one of my favorite books, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life, by Gene Edward Veith, Jr. I know that may sound stuffy, but I promise you the pages contain some sparkling gems. Like this one: “We often speak...