Paul’s letter to the Philippians is often referred to as the letter of joy. In it he uses the word rejoice a half dozen times and then the word joy even more. He writes with joy and is rejoicing as h...  Read More

I like hamburgers…a lot! Around here my favorite burger is at the In-N-Out drive in. To get to the closest one to my house, I have to drive about 20 minutes just to get there. The other day my oldest ...  Read More

I love this quote from President Teddy Roosevelt… “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit...  Read More

World War II had been over for more than six months and my dad was back in his hometown of Dallas, Texas. He and his date were walking on a sidewalk downtown one afternoon just looking in store window...  Read More

At the Naval Academy in Annapolis each year the upper classmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving the courtyard. A visitor was watching all these freshmen on their hands and kne...  Read More

I love the story about the two guys who loved and lived baseball. One day Ted said to his buddy Ned… “Listen, we really want to know if there is baseball in heaven. So, the first one of us who dies, d...  Read More