Great Czar’s Ghost

Every once in a while I have an extremely vivid dream.  Last night was one of those nights. 
 
I was in the duplex my grandfather owned in the 70’s.  It was sold shortly after my grandmother died.  He lived another 20 years.
 
But in this dream, he was already dead.  The house however, was furnished just like it was in the [...]

Out of Context Heresy

MATTHEW - Chapter 10:30
The hairs—are all numbered. That is, each one has exercised the care and attention of God. He has fixed the number; and though of small importance, yet he does not think it beneath him…
Bummer  

 

 

 

 

 

Grateful?

During my never ending training session on Friday, I started playing with Google tools.  I found two that were kind of cool.  One was a search engine for just blogs.  The other was an RSS reader that allows you to read blogs across applications.
 
So while the boredom continued on the training front, I started searching [...]

Having My Cake and Eating It Too

It is a miserable rainy day today.  I had a lot of excitement at work this morning, but now it has died down.  I am basically done with my assignments for the day.  There are a lot of projects I could start, but I am not motivated enough to tackle any new work.
 
I am in [...]

Undercover Brother

Today the sermon at church was about Jesus saying, “I am the vine and you are the branches.”  Of course mid-way through the service I was rewriting the sermon in my head.  It is weird changing churches, same vine, same branch, different location.  I still think it was the right decision to leave our old [...]

Perfect Day

Some days are just perfect.  They are rare, but they do happen.

Baseball

Today’s Agenda:  Baseball, minor league, Frederick Key vs Potomac Nationals.  If you are not there, you are either dead or in prison.  So break out. 
 
Going to a minor league game is probably my favorite family outing.  Unlike the majors, minor league games are cheap and have a real family atmosphere.  It is a great way [...]

Play Ball

Ethan gets his Uniform

He is so proud of his uniform.

He can’t wait to play

 
After getting washed out by rain last week, Ethan finally had his opening game.  He begged us to join the league, and I think it was well worth the investment.  He had so much fun. 
I feel so blessed.  It was just a [...]

The Ideal Self

My son is addicted to Star Wars. So I have been watching the series a lot lately.  When I was a kid, I always imagined myself as Luke Skywalker or Han Solo.  Here in my middle years, I realize I am really Jaba the Hut. 
 
But at least I can imagine my wife is Leah [...]

Goofing around at the park