It’s 4:00 in the morning at my home in Burton, a rural Midwest community in the Great Lakes region of the US. The family is asleep, including a sweet mutt named Cindy (full name Cinnamon). She weighed in at a stout 35 to 40 pounds and was the second-in-command in the home. First in command…
Category: Personal story
Tiramisu, the cat, goes to Dallas
It is 5:00 in the morning outside the Samuel Mather Building in Cleveland, Ohio. I am standing by a small black Ford Tempo, called Little Car. We are getting ready to head for Dallas, Texas. The adventure is going to begin. The Samuel Mather building houses my office and I am gathering a handful of…
RMS Titanic – Remember yet again
Each year on April 14th, my thoughts are drawn to a spot far out in the North Atlantic where, in 1912, one of the grandest ships ever to sail met her fate. On this evening, more than one hundred years ago, the great Titanic was lighting additional boilers as she steamed faster and faster into the night. Her…
Easter Perspective
Scene 1 The Angels in Heaven watched as Jesus’ trial progressed; there he was, captive to these mortal beings the Father had created all those years ago. As they had from the start, thirty-three years ago, they found it difficult to understand what was happening on Earth. Since the beginning of the Earth, the Angels…
Teaching pitching and a really great mom
It was a warm summer evening. My son’s little league team was playing a team from the next town over. Our team was from Burton, Ohio and we were coached by a very talented coach, Mike, whose son was a gifted pitcher. The opposing team was coached by a middle-aged mom, a really nice lady…