It’s funny what sticks with you over the years. When I was a freshman at Eldorado High School, unsure and unconfident, I remember one fall evening sitting out on the big rock by the east parking lot waiting for a ride home. It was following an evening tryout for the school’s basketball teams. It...
Read more →You can never quite get inside what really happened to someone else. You can try, I guess, but how far can you really go? How much can you really know? When I met him, he set me up in my room in the men’s dorm when I first arrived early that misty fall in...
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When the plumbers had our floor opened up in the back of the office and the smell of sewage filled the building yesterday afternoon, Tim and I went for a walk around downtown. We walked over to Central and then walked a few blocks west on it, until we crossed the street and headed...
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Off of work today because the office was still closed for New Year’s break, I had some time this afternoon to finally go and do something I had intended to do for a few weeks. Visit my old friend Robert in the cemetery. Several weeks ago, the service celebrating Robert’s life was held at...
Read more →I’m not the biggest fan of birthdays. I mean, it is something to make it another year, but birthdays also remind me that, well, I am a little older, and there is still a lot in life I thought I would have accomplished or experienced in life by now, but I haven’t. Still, I...
Read more →It’s funny that after every sentimental article I read- after every vignette of a tender moment shared between spouses and longtime lovers, of a man who is as vocal about his faith as he is about his love for his wife, of an athlete who praises his God and his teammates when he is...
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