Estimated reading time: 16 minutes, 22 seconds. The chill, frost, and precipitation have not abated. Even the locals are saying this is the worst winter ever. Old Man Winter engaged in a cataclysmic tug-of-war with Mother Nature this month and he will not let go. In February the NFL hosted the Super Bowl, while here at…

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. If youth is a curable disease, I must be getting healthy. A few days ago I looked at myself in the mirror and saw a sixty-year-old man staring back at me. Even a mention of the year 1958 seems long ago and oh so far away. And now I sit here…

Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 13 seconds.  Researchers say we have over 50,000 thoughts per day, and over half of them are negative. If we instead make the time and effort to focus our questions in a positive direction, we give ourselves the opportunity for a better life. Here are seven compelling questions that have greatly enhanced…

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 27 seconds. Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon made this powerful statement in his Meditationes Sacrae (1597). If this statement is true, it follows that reading and writing bring power to literate societies. These abilities enable the transmission of knowledge with far greater accuracy and context and in far greater quantity and…

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes, 59 seconds. All this month we sang new lyrics to The Arky Arky Song that we learned in Sunday School as kids. “It rained and rained, for twenty-eight daysies, daysies, it rained and rained for twenty-eight daysies, daysies, nearly drove those horses crazy crazies, children of the Lord.” We planned a…

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 20 seconds. The evangelicals know that Trump has been whoring around for years, but his speeches at prayer breakfasts, his judicial appointments, and occasional coddling of his pastoral advisory board give the Christians a comforting warm glow. It makes them feel solid, substantial, and virtuous. It makes them think of their…

Estimated reading time: 14 minutes, 33 seconds. Many people long for a farm in the country someday, but with only my wife and a small dog in tow, at the age of fifty-seven, we decided to go for it. We purchased fifty-four acres in the remote foothills of the Appalachians and spent three years clearing the…

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I have to say I’ve not been this excited about new technology in a long time. It reminds me of the feeling I had the first time I listened to a DVD. My Facebook friend Leo Gallant responded to my lamenting that only CBS had an AppleTV app. He told me about YouTube TV. I…

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 16 seconds About three years ago, I returned to the mountains of Tennessee, like a modern-day Thoreau, with the intention of getting lost in the woods. After several years of living in the hubbub of downtown Franklin, TN and Austin, TX where I networked, convened conferences for creatives, worked with a…

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1) You can’t make this stuff up. 2) The eerie similarity of my time on a Southern Baptist mega-church staff executive team to that of the daily spin of the Trump White House. 3) The eerie similarity of Trump to my mega-church pastor. 4) The book helped this media-averse recluse make sense of the convoluted…

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