I’ve got a fever! No, not a 100 degree plus temperature but rather I’ve got World Cup Fever! Recently my emotions and mood have been tied to the roller coaster that is USA soccer! One of the biggest challenges is that the games come on at either 10 am or 2:30 pm EST. What’s with [...]
From now until Pentecost on May 23rd, St. Mark’s UMC will be engaged in a Sermon Series entitled Acting OUT. Easter calls us to live differently. We can’t experience The Resurrection and then just go home. No, like the apostles, the early followers of Christ, we too must go Act OUT our faith. Throughout this [...]
On Training the Dragons
Hiccup is a most unlikely hero and probably the least Viking-like Viking in the world. He is different, no macho bravado. He is rejected in his home town because his ways are not the ways of the people.
The Vikings in the movie “How to Train a Dragon” have two functions: Kill the [...]
February 18, 2010 – 10:05 pm
Ah! Lint.
Bellybutton lint; pocket lint; dryer lint; lint filters; lint rollers; there’s even a “National Lint Project” – if you don’t believe me, you can check it out at http://www.studiocapezzuti.com/lint/lintguys.htm
I started thinking about lint this morning, on this first day of Lent, as I was tidying up my desk, doing a little spring cleaning as [...]
December 11, 2009 – 10:39 am
It has been kindly (well not really) pointed out to me that I have not written a blog post in months now. I apologize to my fan base for being otherwise occupied. (I didn’t know you cared!)In thinking about the blog I had all but decided to make it a New Year’s Resolution to write [...]
October 8, 2009 – 1:23 pm
I have only really been interested in Golf during one period of my life. During my High School years, my friends and I would go to the par 3 course every Wednesday afternoon. The only clubs I had were my Grandfather’s 40 year old right handed clubs. The problem with this is that I am [...]
September 25, 2009 – 8:16 am
There are two kinds of people: Those who love jigsaw puzzles; and those who do not.
I love jigsaw puzzles.
I come by it honest. My dad loved jigsaw puzzles, and both my brother and I love them. (It has yet to be demonstrated if my children have inherited the jigsaw gene, but I remain hopeful!)
There is [...]
August 19, 2009 – 5:36 am
“And God looked at everything God had created and said that it was good.”
It came as shocking news to me when a friend from across the room said, “Soon hot dog packages will be marked with the same warning as cigarettes.” Their names “rolled” off my tongue like honey: Oscar Meyer, Ball Park, Jesse Jones. [...]
Ace of Cakes
Have you ever seen the show Ace of Cakes? After Duff Goldman went to culinary school he decided to start a bakery in Baltimore, Maryland. He hired his friends who did not have any baking skills but wonderful artistic skills to help him run his bakery. They are the most creative bunch of [...]
The magician waved a white handkerchief in the air before stuffing it into his top hat. He waved his hand above the hat and exclaimed the words, “Hocus pocus!” He reached into his hat, and pulled out a fluttering white dove! What a magical transformation! All because of the magic words: Hocus Pocus.
But did you [...]
