Category Archives: Mundane

Lest they see

“ Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.” (Isaiah 6:10) Somehow Tanta’s death seems like a seal of doom. Not that the economy was not already collapsing, nor that Tanta could Read More


The Faltering Economy

What you buy at the store is what you will eat at home. I have tried from time to time to see if I could buy chips and “health” bars and other snacks and then go home and eat a three-course meal, and thus far I have always wound up with one hand in a snack bag and the other Read More


Website maintenance

I have just upgraded this site’s WordPress installation (first time I have tried such a thing). Please let me know if there are problems.


So. . . do you know where we’re going?

I’m not like some men of cliche. I don’t absolutely refuse to ask for directions. Sometimes I ask for directions even when I am pretty sure I know. Today I needed to take someone to an airport I’d never been to before. This was not planned; that is, I was asked the night before but it wasn’t in the original Read More