Even as the gray clouds gathered and I rode my bicycle eastward toward Waterloo, the colors whirled and zoomed around me. Yellow and black, red and brown, red and black, brown and white, white and … [Read more...]
Preaching, Death, Trust
A video version follows the text Can I just say that preaching isn’t as easy as it looks. I know it is not really a job for a grown man or woman, but it’s all I know. And once in awhile I just … [Read more...]
Weaponizing Religious Anxiety
The United States is changing and it is changing fast. From 2009 to 2019 the number of Christians in the United States declined by twelve million (give or take a few). Meanwhile, the number of … [Read more...]
What’s in a Name?
Why are they Oligarchs in Russia but simply Billionaires here? “Oligarchy” from Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary: “1: government by the few; 2: a government in which a small group exercises … [Read more...]
Just One Man’s Opinion
I am going to spill the beans. You already know I am a dog-person not a cat-person -- parallel devotions usually without intersection. So this will further alienate you or tickle your attention. Some … [Read more...]
Get Supple
I am notorious in my family for moving furniture around. The desire to change a room used to come on me all of a sudden. Once we lived in a big 100-plus year old house and my wife would come home and … [Read more...]
On Writing Denim Spirit
A NOTE...to those reading this on my website rather than in the newspaper: Denim Spirit is a weekly column that appears each Wednesday in The Finger Lakes Times (NY. Cir. 30,000) and the references … [Read more...]
Is it okay to poison dogs?
I realize not everyone likes dogs. Some people prefer cats, some birds. Some get along with plants while others keep fish. I get it, or at least intellectually I accept it. But really, a dog... A … [Read more...]
Is it a wonderful life?
A haze of white flakes pelted my face with the temperature in the teens on Monday morning. Dog and I leaned in against the wind as March roared like a lion with forty mph wind gusts. By mid-morning I … [Read more...]
Aging Spirits
Burris School, K-12, Muncie, Indiana I grew up in a Midwestern rust belt college town about the size of Utica, NY. When I was young the assembly lines were humming -- Westinghouse, Borg Warner … [Read more...]
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