I was startled by my wife’s phone alarm, not because I’d never heard it before, but because it was mid-afternoon on a Saturday. “Your phone alarm went off,” I said, stating the obvious. Rushing back into the house from the garage, where we were attempting a start on cleaning up and cleaning out winter’s messiness, …
I smiled when I saw them at the graveside service; their presence, though unusual, didn’t surprise me. The honor guard was standing at attention for Frank Spragans, the deceased, whose service I had just officiated. We had concluded the service at the funeral home and were at the graveside. But what was the honor guard …
In the Senate Committee hearings last week on reopening the US, Anthony Fauci says vaccine development is one of the big unknowns in the coronavirus response “There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective,” he says, adding that he is still “cautiously optimistic.” What does it mean to be cautiously optimistic? Should …
We almost didn’t have my graduation ceremony from Altus High School in Altus, Oklahoma, Class of 1975. A few hours before the ceremony was to begin, we still were under a tornado warning. Living in that area of the country, we were used to tornadic weather, but, “give me a break,” I thought, “not on …