The one thing necessary
My computer geek friends are excited about the new Windows 10, but I am more interested in a personal operating system update—one that would include the…
Words for the side-of-the-road club
I have a friend who is an engineer. He talks plainly and makes and mends things. And one time he spoke words to me that were…
Introducing the ABBYs: My Best of the Year
There’s nothing like an end-of-year “Best of” list for prompting an argument with your friends, so have this one on me. Through a complex set of…
Becoming a good man…
When I think of posthumous tributes, I always tearily remember the final scene in Saving Private Ryan: the now-elderly former soldier who was the subject of…
Mind like a Roomba
Sometimes it seems like my brain has a mind of its own. There I am, quite happily focused on something of note, and all of a…
Standing tall after stooping low
Imagine a president who uses his position to pursue sexual immorality: a bit of a stretch, I know. Next, envisage him arranging for one of his…
Taking time to see
Don’t ask me to slow down and jump in the leaves, because I am going to be thinking, “Yeah, right. And who’s going to have to…
My personal ‘scan disk’
I am not the techiest of people: if something has more than two buttons, chances are I will press the wrong one. My wife, Marcia, has…
Stuck in the middle with who?
You may have given some thought to which famous people you’d most like to host at a dinner party, but I want to know who you…
Adam’s good scar?
You have probably wrestled at some stage with the old question about whether Adam and Eve had belly buttons, but I have a different query about…
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