We had to be there. That’s what I thought last year when my “home team,” the Kansas City Royals, played in the World Series. But “being there” in Kansas City is a much different experience than being there in Chicago for the Chicago Cubs World Series. Wrigley Field, you see, is located in a neighborhood…
We’ve been winding our way to Florida over the past few days, braving torrential rains in Mississippi and Alabama and outrunning tornadoes all across the South. This isn’t the most direct route from Wisconsin, but I had but five states remaining on my bucket list – to visit all fifty states. By threading the line…
Whether the issue is political or local gossip, there are a lot of knee-jerk reactions to commentary taken out of context. I know I was the object of a lot of community gossip when I served a church and a rumor got around town that I had refused a gun salute at a military funeral.…
I’m not certain when the word hate was introduced into my vocabulary. I attended Sunday School for as long as I can remember and, certainly, some teacher along the way must have told me not to use that word. But I don’t remember being admonished for it. It was bandied about our house religiously with…