I have gotten terribly stalled on learning chords. I am just starting to get to the point where I can make a passable attempt at switching from G to D7 (my first two chords). This hurdle has been terrible for my enthusiasm and I have found lots of reasons not to practice over the last few months. To combat this Read More

“You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting,” Daniel informed Belshazzar. The significance of this depends on who was doing the weighing. I have felt myself considered short in many different ways, but only once do I remember feeling I had been found fundamentally lacking righteousness. I will use that word, anyway; theologians might tell me there is Read More

I got a bill and I thought to pay it like a good boy. I went to write a check but there were no checks in the checkbook. I went to get a new checkbook but the box was empty. I knew I had been running low but I thought I had at least one checkbook left! I go through Read More

I got an e-mail not too long ago which purported to have been a television address by a name-brand conservative. I won’t give the name because I suspect the named was innocent of this particular pontification. It was the “God is a gentleman” routine about how we asked God to get out of our schools, so He left and then Read More