now i'm all for your right to make a buck if you want to...i'm not even going to dictate what you do with it (cough cough send to urban ministry cough) but WE are out of control. Name brands on clothes...go ahead. want a better cell phone...you should be able to shop around. Hey, you want to spend that much on a car...whatever. But the quality ( Read more... )

I'm at work waiting on some students who are volunteering today for MLK day. I ran by the "not quite as evil empire" (target not walmart)on my way here. I painted all weekend and it allowed me to go get pleasures like a sweatshirt and toothpaste and a new watch :) since i got paint all over my old one ( Read more... )

today during lunch i went downtown with a group of other folks to hold signs opposing the death penalty and pass out information regarding that issue. This is NOT a post about that issue...i'll save that for another day. Its a post about thinking about what you say. For example (or should i say, for a bad example) the man in the van driving by ( Read more... )

i just noticed this business this morning. it's on my way to work. close to the church with the "curse of ham hocks" sermon title (must be a series since there's usually a new title by now)ANYWAY, the business was "Dexter's Bail Bond and Carwash". hahahahahaha

memories are an amazing thing...gifts really, well the good ones anyway. i opened my gift tonight as i popped a bag of orville redenbacher's simply salted microwave popcorn.it tasted as close to the popcorn my grandaddy luke used to pop as is possible. he was a popcorn popper extraordinaire. it was more than just the popcorn. it was the time ( Read more... )

i posted a couple of weeks ago about the church with the christmas sermon title of "we pregnant". same church, this week's title "the trouble with Ham-hocks". makes me want to pop in and hear that one! but alas, Sunday is Levi's 15th birthday!!!! what's up with that? time flies. Happy Birthday, Levi ( Read more... )

fyi, when you go into the grocery store--pretty much ANY grocery store--- and ask for a "hand held nut cracker", people laugh at you. why Why WHY are they so hard to find??? they sell you whole walnuts and pecans...but no nutcracker around.

on my way to work, I pass a church. well, i pass several churches, but this particular church always post the coming service's sermon title. this week is "we pregnant" hahahahahaha ( Read more... )

Lots of folks donate things during Christmas and don't get me wrong, I really really appreciate it. On behalf of the West End folks that will now have a Christmas, I thank you wholeheartedly!!!! ("you" being the universal "you" i used to study about in english class). But, is there a problem with giving with a smile? or even if you don't smile at ( Read more... )

i had to attend the funeral of a high school classmate last night. i'm old, but not THAT old. His name was David Jolly and he was the kind of person that most of us wish we could be. He was sweet and funny and caring and able to say exactly what was on his mind at any given time and people loved him even more for it. Most of all, he was never ( Read more... )