We were in Laurel last week, visiting with the grandkids, Katherine and Levi, and their expendable parents. (If you’re a grandparent, I don’t need to explain. Katherine and Levi’s parents just tend to get in the way of our fun.) Katherine and Levi would rather eat at Waffle House than any other restaurant in the […]
Ode to Fried Chicken
Here’s something special from me at Thanksgiving. Honesty, I don’t have anything against turkey, but fried chicken transcends any calendar date.
True Friendship: Love Beyond
Being a friend doesn’t always mean filling the void with words. Sometimes, it means understanding the importance of silence, recognizing when it’s time to speak, and when it’s time to simply listen.
Broken us. 10 principles.
We are all broken in some fashion, aren’t we? And brokenness can manifest itself in broken relationships.
This is a theme I tend to return to often, Broken relationships are just excruciating. Let’s suss this out, and let me see if we can get some guidance here.
Love all. Serve all. Be mistreated.
Love all, serve all, be mistreated. My goodness. There’s all sorts of irony in the title of this blog. When I cobble these posts together, I purposefully try to be as broad as I can for people all along the faith spectrum. Most of the time, I’m writing what I want to hear for myself. […]
Friends are friends forever (or do they need to be?)
When it comes to friends, even forever friends, my stomach for uncomfortable social situations is a lot worse than it used to be. Are friends friends forever? Do they even need to be? The pandemic has done a job on us, so it’s time for some dispassionate analysis.
I’m sorry.
What makes it so hard for some people to apologize and simply say “I’m sorry?” Do they think it’s a sign of weakness? It is a belief that they’re never wrong?
I don’t have many friends.
Don’t judge when I say I don’t have many friends. For me, that’s a virtue, and even contributes to my well-being. For that elite group who gets this, today’s blog is for you.
Antisocial media.
I’m not sure why social media isn’t called antisocial media. Most everyone seems to agree that life is getting busier, crazier, and more frantic with each passing day. We’re bombarded by more information than we know how to process—news, ads, commercials, blogs, tweets, music, pics, and more ads. Crazier still is that we have more […]
Give me a break.
We all need a break from time to time. It’s possible that we might need a break from each other. Let’s call it caregiver fatigue. It’s a thing.
