Becky Loves Me was a band a couple of my friends were in during the early 90’s. They had a great line in one of their songs that went like this, “Sorry, Sir, I didn’t know you had to sell your dream… just to have a life.” It is easy for us to fall into […]

My first car was army green and was dubbed by my friends as “the Turtle” and was also affectionatly the “Green M&M”. The cool thing about that car was that it was a stick shift, very economical, got great gas mileage and was so easy to use. If you know anything about cars, stick shifts

I was looking over a Xanga account I had a few years ago, as I was shutting it down and I came across an old post I thought was rather interesting. So, in the spirit of “Good Preachin’ Preacha!” I am going to republish here… enjoy 🙂 I heard a phrase recently that really stuck

I saw something really strange yesterday. On my way home from work, I noticed a woman on a bicycle stopped at a red light putting on make-up. We have all seen some lady in her car at a red light applying lipstick, but this blew me away. Talk about a multi-tasker! It got even better

So I heard recently about this strange vow that some people make with one another. They make a pact with each other that if they are not married by a certain age then they will get married to one another. Sounds crazy, right? Well, there actually are people out there that have made it work,

So I had this dream last night. I don’t know about you, but when I dream I don’t tend to remember many details. It had something to do with preparing a message for a church. I was “drawn” to a scripture about a man who shot an arrow before it was time. Now, you may

The smell of “grandma’s” house, the sight of a previously owned home, the voice of an old friend. These things can bring a person back to a place in the distant past and rip it open like a present (no pun intended). Now that “present of past” could be wanted such as the new iPhone

Fear is a strange thing. It can often motivate an otherwise rational person to things that could be considered, well …irrational. It can keep a person from experiencing things that are otherwise thrilling, eye opening or things that just make life a bit easier. Consider Joe. Joe got invited to a all expense paid trip

I want you to imagine for a moment a set of parents. Now these parents have an only child and because of this they are super protective. They are so protective that they refuse to have an oven in the house for fear of their child getting burned. This child will grow up never knowing

While I was working as manager of Homer’s Coffeehouse a few years back, one of my co-workers told me a story about her friend. Apparently, her friend was in a dating relationship and trying to stay pure despite her own temptations. She came to the conclusion that to intentionally go to a place where it