We aren’t victims of our circumstances. We can make a choice about our emotions. I didn’t say “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season …
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 …
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 …
Although we wouldn’t say the covid-19 pandemic has been a blessing, good things can come from something bad like this. One of those is the ever present reminder of our own demise. It’s a stark question we don’t like to ask, but it’s necessary, so here it is: “Have you faced your own death and …