One of the fun places in Kansas City North is Penguin Park. We spent quite a few fun hours over the years. Actually it is amazing that we didn't spend more. It is easy to not make the time to run to the park. But on the occasion in these pictures, apparently we did. This … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #28: Penguin Park at Night →

(Part of a series singing through the hymnbook I grew up with: Great Hymns of the Faith) This is a hymn that I feel should be familiar, but I really don't know. Which made singing and playing at the same time a little hard -- my eyes tried to jump verses from line to line. … Continue reading #22 Ancient of Days →

The main textbook for my Communication Ethics class is a 400+-page book with small print titled "Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach" by Craig E. Johnson. And those 400 pages doesn't include the 30+ pages of brief contents, contents, and introduction. In the introduction I ran across this choice sentence:  "We all pay a high price … Continue reading Large Tomes and Large Introductions →

You know the book is going to be labored when it has four headlined sections in the preface. You could never get away with that in a fiction book (well, perhaps I shouldn't say that, but it would have to support something really special), but in my most recent text book that is exactly what … Continue reading Communication Ethics: a lengthy, belabored prologue →

(Continuing the series of our visit to the Kansas City zoo). Since we had purchased the unlimited transportation package, we wanted to get the full benefit of the pass. So we decided to do the Sky Safari again -- this time riding the full circuit. We would get on and off at the same station, … Continue reading KC Zoo: Sky Safari 2 →

(This is the 12th and final part of the series on my only solo concert to date: A Concert of Sacred Metaphors, 2006). The concert ended with this song from Michael Card: Joy in the Journey. A reminder that life in Christ is a journey, not a destination.

Yesterday was a day of amazing coincidences.  The Bureau of Homeland Security assured us that none of them were caused by any "malicious intent", but that doesn't present the conspiracy-minded from seeing all those plausible connections. After all, how many times does: 1) An airline's system grounds all its planes for 2 hours. 2) The … Continue reading Hack or no Hack →

Just a reminder that hit me today... when people are so sure they know all about you .... They are often 100% wrong.

On this Independence day I thought I would share this TV special from years gone by, featuring John Wayne.  I have been hearing one of Wayne's speeches from this at the amusement park for the past several days, but they never share the whole thing.  So here it is: It is especially worthwhile after reading … Continue reading On Independence Day…. →