September 6, 2016

I’ve written about it on these pages before: I am a Weather Channel junkie. Mike Seidel is a hero. Jim Cantore is a superhero. The “weather on the 8s” concept is part of my daily life. Nothing new there. So when The Weather Channel (TWC) tells me to prepare for a major storm, I do […]

August 10, 2016

A man at my old church has filed a “breach of contract” suit against God. He bought a lottery ticket, prayed, patiently waited for the results and lost when the grand prize was awarded to a lawn service worker in another town. This, despite God’s written promises that “anything you asked in faith would be […]

July 11, 2016

We are living in “The Golden Age of Windbags.” You cannot escape them, you cannot ignore them, and you have to accept them as part of our uber-hip, weird, talk-to-me culture. Their mouths run like water, words evaporating into the nothingness of time and space, only to be replaced by another flood of bloviation. We […]

July 5, 2016

The television series “Lost” was one of my family’s favorites. All of us would gather every Wednesday evening for the latest installments. I was often shouted down: “Dad, shut up!” or “Nobody wants to hear it, Taylor,” because I couldn’t restrain myself from opining. Partly because I was frustrated with the story lines. And partly […]

June 27, 2016

Hi, everyone. I’m in London as you read this. Yep, London. England. The epicenter of the “Brexit” vote last week, the nerve center for all things worldly, financial and political for the future of Europe – and maybe the planet – as we know it. Current events have made this old city a hotbed of […]