Don't know what to make of the news that membership in organized religions is down in all fifty states. That's not quite true.  I've been trying not to let myself make anything of it.  For one thing, I'd just be talking out of my hat.  I don't know enough.  None of the articles I...

Admonished: Pronunciation: \ad-ˈmä-nish\ Function: transitive verb 1 a: to indicate duties or obligations to b: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner I was admonished on Sunday by my missus for not properly conducting a Sunday school class. We g...

Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

Apologies for the delay in posting; this was due to circumstances far beyond my control. Whew. Okay. A moment before the Purim holiday ends, let’s take a look at days gone by, in particular the Adloyada parade. “Adloyada” is a bastardization of the phrase “ad lo yada” o...

This week's Sunday Scribblings topic was "Listen Up, Because this is Important!" Which makes me think of those scenes from old movies - the ones where the newsboy wearing his porkpie hat is standing on the corner, holding up the newspaper, yelling, "Extra! Extra! Read All About It...

While trudging through last night's moribund and unfunny home foreclosure-themed Simpsons episode, we suddenly got to wondering... Is it possible to laugh about the looming New Depression? OK, so there was a funny Peppermint Patty is a lesbian laff. But other than that, we sat through 22 minutes of ...

I have no great progress to report. Yesterday I did about nine miles, up to High and Over, then to Fiveways and back to the sea and along the front. I say about as I am still finding the new Garmin difficult. I fear it may be a bad unit and I shall have to send it back. It was very windy and hard wo...

It was "spring-forward" day at hyde park - you know, the day that multitudes of people forget to set the clock forward and miss church... I gotta tell you, I felt that it was an amazing day!!! Week 2 of the "God's Stimulus Plan" and I have to feel that some of you are just a little bit closer to you...

A while since I've done this. I really don't want to make it a regular thing, but rather something I do, simply, when I feel like it. I've spent a lot of time this weekend in the mountains thinking and deliberating about where this blog goes over time -- including my entrepreneuria...

TV this week: Battlestar Galactica: "Home: Part 1" - I'm to the point that if an episode has Baltar in it, I kind of wish it would end immediately. The character makes me squirm. Fortunately, he's only in one scene. I wonder if the new Boomer will survive very long in that crowd of hostile humans? T...