History, Real Life and Faith
Many people have seen this famous photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral wreathed in smoke following the London Blitz of December, 1940. What you may not know is that all that smoke is not the cathedral, but the burning of London’s book warehouses. Among those buildings destroyed were warehouses containing all the unsold copies of the Oswald Chambers canon then in…
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I’ve spent the last month grappling with technology so as to share my voice with my family. A box of old tapes discovered earlier this year enabled me to hear my parent’s voices once again, if only for a snippet. You can read that post here. A further investigation into the box turned up a dozen or so tapes of me…
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For a long time I never deleted the first message on my answering machine: I needed to save his voice. One hurried day, I listened to the messages and then hit “delete all.” I gasped and I tried to stop it. Too late. I felt to the floor beside the machine and sobbed. I had just deleted my father’s voice singing Happy Birthday…
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For a long time I never deleted the first message on my answering machine: I needed to save his voice. One hurried day, I listened to the messages and then hit “delete all.” I gasped and I tried to stop it. Too late. I felt to the floor beside the machine and sobbed. I had just deleted my father’s voice singing Happy Birthday…
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December 2015 marked *six years of blogging. Here are six things I learned in those years. 1. I like to blog As a once-upon-a-time newspaper reporter, I had anticipated I’d like blogging and that has turned out to be true. I like putting together the ideas, finding the photos, dreaming up a pseudo-clever title and interacting with folks who read my…
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Merry Christmas to all. My family is spending this week in a myriad of activities. As members of a Lutheran Church choir, we’ll be singing the wonderful music of Christmas–in four-part harmony. We sang a variety of songs on Sunday night at the annual Christmas concert. I’ve been playing my clarinet all season long for our Wednesday night Advent services…
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