Devotional

The above series of letters stands for the "Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine", a brotherhood that you probably know by its more common name, the Shriners. When a person becomes a Shriner and enters the door of…

As you know from yesterday, I spent the night in Dallas. Although I usually stay in one of my regular hotels, I decided to try out the Ritz - admittedly one of the finest hotels in the Dallas area. I…

Some of the posts the last several weeks have been pretty serious - in fact, a couple of them have been downright intense, so how about a little lighter story for tonight? You know - Janet and I don't like to…

Ninety-six years ago today, on Feb. 26, 1916, Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. was born at 364 Chauncey Street in Brooklyn, New York. Not long after, he was baptized John Herbert Gleason, but for those of you old enough to remember…

I always wanted to be a surgeon. Really, I did. In fact, I wanted to be a bioengineer - that's a doctor who is involved in the design, building and perhaps even use of state of the art medical devices.…

Tonight is a tough night to write a post. Because many people I care about are hurting this evening and there is only so much I can do about it. Several of those people are folks who read these posts…

Several days ago, I wrote about the reach of Transitions and let you know that we were making progress across the world, and in 49 of our 50 states, but that North Dakota was a holdout. I sent out a…

It's February 19th - and that means it's my 59th birthday today. It's been a great day. Usually, I confess, I get a little introspective a few days before the big day each year. For some reason, I start to…

Kristin and her three boys have spent a great deal of time with Janet and me in the last month or so and we have really enjoyed their company. Each of the boys have had a special project to work…

You know, I'm on kind of a rant this week. Because I have several pet peeves and I experienced one of them several days ago. For starters, I can't stand it when a Walgreen's moves in right next door to…