The folks gathered around the table were in various stages of homelessness. Completely homeless. Transitioning to homeless. Transitioning out of homelessness. With homes and now back to sitting among their friends and just listening and being supportive. There were those of us who can only imagine what it must be like to be homeless. There…
When we moved to Wisconsin 16 years ago, we had to go through the same experience of everyone who has moved after a long period of time and when they are moving to a place where they have no connections or relatives. Simple things we often take for granted: finding a reliable car repair shop,…
When I was in my early years of high school, I was surprised when my folks called to me and told me there was a telegram for me. I had to go to the door to claim it from the Western Union carrier. It made me a little nervous. Even at that young age, I…
I’m pretty certain if you could get an answer out of our cat Marvis regarding for what he is grateful this Thanksgiving, he would answer in no uncertain terms, “That you finally realized that I was locked in the furnace room for about 14 hours on Tuesday.” Being the optimist he always is, however, he…
“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time…
My high school class had about 500 kids in it. That means there were just under 2,000 kids in the school itself. When you have 500 fellow students in a class, there’s no way to know them all in a meaningful way. Many I got to know through our classwork, of course. Many others became…
The large boat was on a tour throughout the very large port of Hamburg, Germany. We were part of a larger group of folks whose business plans included this portion of our trip. It seemed that the vast majority of the others were disinterested at best as they were jabbering louder and louder over the…
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” – William F. Buckley, Jr. “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt One of the best…