Of all the rights we have in this country, free speech is one of the hardest to love. Yet at the same time it is perhaps one of the most important. It is very easy for me to take it for granted. I am accustomed to thinking out loud sometimes, as I’m sure many others are. This would not be possible without a basic right to free speech.
This morning I ran into one of those examples that makes…
Does anyone still refer to hockey as “ice hockey”? A friend of mine recently asked me if I was interested in taking in a game, via the wife-line. I give him a call, saying “I understand there is an urgent matter regarding an ice hockey game”. Ice hockey? What was he going to say, “no, there’s a semi-pro women’s field hockey team playing at the University…
In short order, Cheryl’s anger will be ripe for an outburst. You see, I’ve found a new toy and it has taken up much of my time this evening. I am famous in the annals of the Florida Department of Revenue for my one tracked mindedness. I am infamous in the annals of the Kauffman household (version 2.0) for this same trait. “And there was a great gnashing of teeth as mother…
Last week I walked from my car to the office as a bit of cool air hit me in the face and brushed my bare skin. I was tempted to say chill, but I quickly recovered. It is 09/in Florida after all. Even I feel silly saying that 75 is chilly. Another sign has parked invisibly over our heads – a stalled frontal weather system. No one in Florida talks about weather “fronts” until after…
God is not a topic that people take up lightly. I’ll go further and say that it is not a subject that most people feel comfortable taking up at all – myself included. Why is that?
I was sitting in on a Bible study class Sunday morning and the pastor asked us the following question: “when you pray for the church, what do you pray for?” “I can’t recall the last…