mortality
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Check it off!
Apparently, I am immortal. At least that is the conclusion one might draw based on my recent behavior. In two weeks, we will arrive at the one-year anniversary of the day I asked for – and RECEIVED! – an estate planning… Continue reading
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Whole Again
Is it possible to know too much? Or to be too educated? As an avid advocate of education, I would tend to answer these questions in the negative. My argument would be that more harm has been done in (and… Continue reading
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Testing… Testing…
Fall is many things. Fall is cooler weather. Fall is turning leaves. Fall is back-to-school, pumpkin spice EVERYTHING, football, turning leaves, wardrobe revision, Halloween, the end of mowing, and the roll-out of next year’s new auto models. But most of… Continue reading
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Blades of Grass
I was supposed to go to my 50th high school class reunion last year. Instead, all members of the Hilliard (Ohio) High School class of 1970 spent our reunion year cowering inside hermetically sealed isolation suits, trying our best to avoid… Continue reading
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Frozen People
I knew it was coming, just as surely as the next episode of The Lone Ranger on Saturday morning TV. When I was a wee lad and we made the 415-mile trek to see my dad’s parents in St. Louis,… Continue reading
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Scattered
A couple of weeks ago, my siblings and I had one of our all-too-rare get-togethers. Rare because hanging out regularly is hard when separated by 2,000 miles of American soil. As providence would have it, the occasion of… Continue reading
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“This is not a test…”
Sometimes it takes a nuclear missile attack warning – in this case, fortunately, issued in error. Sometimes it takes the firm hand and raised voice of a **loving** spouse that keeps you from stepping absentmindedly into traffic. Sometimes it takes… Continue reading
Russellings of the Spirit 