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Yesterday was a slow day… and yet I accomplished something we’ve talked about doing for over a year. It wasn’t too many years ago that I was walking 3 miles a day.  These days my body is “rusty”.  I feel like I’ve accomplished something when I can put in a good 1 mile! On theContinue reading “Slow Day”

After returning from Kenya in September, 1977, I was still suffering from the side-effects of the food poisoning incident, feeling very weak.  So, I took a semester off, and working part time while I regained my strength and went through medical testing to determine if there would be long-term effects. I enrolled at Creighton UniversityContinue reading “You’re in the Army now”

I turned 12 in 1970.  This would be for me the decade of adventure, in more ways than one! When I turned 6, my parents enrolled me in Cub Scouts.  I enjoyed the den meetings, there were my friends, and all sorts of crafty type things.  It was a good time with Mom, who attendedContinue reading “That 70s Life”

Hello world. I know there are thousands and thousands of you just waiting for my return to the blogosphere. I’m sorry to have deprived you myriads of people of my insight and wisdom. Okay, now that I’ve exercised my delusions of grandeur, perhaps I can actually write something more based in reality. Hi, Jeremy. SorryContinue reading “Dipping my toe, testing the water”

Mom died. She died the day after my last post here. It’s taken me this long to say it, though. The first few weeks afterwards, I thought, would be the hardest. But there was so much to do; in the minutes and hours and days immediately following her dying, there was the visitation and funeralContinue reading “Untitled”

My writing here is sketchy… I realize that. And I doubt that any of my readers, or the few there were, are with me any more to see this. But, I thought I should at least attempt to get caught up on my life here. August 9, 2007, just as promised in my last postContinue reading “Let’s play catch! (up)”

Some years ago, I wrote about marriage. I said basically, that while an official, recognized by the state marriage was important, married in the sight of God was the more important. In August 1997, my partner Scott and I had done just that, gotten married in the sight of God in a Holy Union. Well,Continue reading “I take thee….”

I’ve noticed something recently.  I was remembering a back-packing trip I took ages ago, alone, into the high country near Estes Park, Colorado.  I remember the sense of awe and majesty I had with every change of the trail.  I remember also that I felt far more alone than I had expected to.  By thatContinue reading “My Journey Continues”

It sure has been a long time since last I wrote. I’m not sure why that is. I think partially it’s because I really haven’t felt like I had anything worthwhile to say. I’d like nothing more than to be a writer. I think, however, that writing is a gift; and I suspect that myContinue reading “Busy, busy, busy”

I have discovered what violence does to one. Specifically, I have discovered first hand the effect that an assault with a deadly weapon has on the victim. I don’t know if my assailant thinks what he did was assault. I wonder if he realizes how incredibly stupid he was, and how terribly lucky he is?Continue reading “Violence”