On Monday, arriving for work, I found an e-mail from the highest authority asking me to explain something I can not control and can only slightly effect. I made a pie chart and a bar chart representing what the situation that I could not effect was, and then I attended a meeting on that subject. For the balance of the Read More

If perchance there are gentle and refined readers out there, be advised that in this post I use coarser language than I usually employ–in writing. I once told my boss that if so-and-so told him such-and-such, they were full of bullshit, because it wasn’t so. He replied, “Oh, you said ‘bullshit.’ You’re all grown up now, I’m so proud of Read More

Jesus knew His purpose in this life, and He called disciples after Him, giving them instructions to carry on His teaching. Without doubt, He is the model in principle for our lives. While we are not in the same circumstances or given the same specific tasks as Jesus Himself, the principles–really, the Person–which shaped His work should also define our Read More

As She Moved Through the Fair My love said to me, My Mother won’t mind And me Father won’t slight you For your lack of kind. Then she stepped away from me And this she did say: It will not be long, love, Till our wedding day. She stepped away from me And she moved through the fair And fondly Read More