Dream On

Some people who read my blog love trading or rehashing crazy family stories, and goodness knows my family has a lot of them. After hearing Aerosmith’s Dream On the other day, I had to write this one down. Early in high school my best friend spent the night. We came up with a practical joke […]

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Iago

Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body? -Othello While reading a legal newsletter I subscribe to this week, I came across an article about Iago, the villain in Shakespeare’s Othello. Dallas lawyer Michael Maslanka asked What Can Lawyers Learn From ‘Othello’?

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Keep Looking Up

Yesterday in Florida, Jack Horkheimer, the longtime host of “Star Gazer” on public television, died at the age of 72. Horkheimer was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium for three and a half decades. He had no formal astronomy training, but with his trademark infectious enthusiasm, brought the wonders of the universe […]

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Hypnotic Milfoil

On Sunday I went swimming with family at a local lake. I hadn’t been swimming at that particular spot before, and found that the milfoil was horrible. The kids covered themselves in it and I took pictures of them rising from the shallow water like lake monsters. When we got home, we smelled so bad […]

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Blog Philosophy

After a major life change earlier this year, I had to adjust my schedule and priorities. It was not fair and it involved a traumatic loss, but I trust that God allowed it to happen for a reason. I know He is working right now even though I don’t know what He’s doing yet. As […]

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Documentation

Typing furiously before he got home, I decided to make another copy. I cut the entire document, many months of notes, from the hard drive and pasted it on the disc whirring in its slot. At that point I knew that a record of all of the threats, all of the frightening behavior, and my […]

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Play-Doh Part II

He works in mysterious ways. As if to answer the questions in the nightmares I wrote about on Monday, today I learned a major truth about one relationship I addressed. Those nightmares were no accident. They opened up the doors to answers I’ve spent six months hoping for. Now most of the red flags make […]

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Holen Sie schnell Hilfe!

I’ve always said that in cat theology, cats see God as God, but the devil appears as a vacuum cleaner. ************************************************************************************* German cat turns on vacuum, causes emergency alert Associated Press BERLIN — A cat home alone in Germany apparently turned on the vacuum cleaner, frightened itself half to death and wound up being attended […]

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Play-Doh Men

No! No! I jumped onto the next log dammed across the murky water, then onto a piece of driftwood. The grey sky arced overhead like a bird of prey with its wings unfurled as I jumped towards shore. Why I hadn’t fallen into the pond yet I didn’t know, because that’s where they were with […]

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