Happy Holidays citizens of The Manoverse!! Alas, today I come not to praise our most wonderful time of the year, but to express a bit of frustration. Yesterday we celebrated that most American of holidays…Thanksgiving. We’ll look at the holiday itself a little closer this time next year because I am currently reading a… Read More Thanksgiving, Black Friday, & The Christmas Creep
When one has a forum like this one feels obligated to comment on certain events and topics du jour. I mean really…why else would one have a blog, right?? And so I am duty-bound to pontificate on the milestone that is my 40th birthday. I am not sure when or why turning 40… Read More A Pirates Fan Looks At 40
I’m going to break a few of my own rules today. First of all, I usually do not repost the plethora of little pictures with cute sayings or quotes that everybody puts on Facebook these days. Sometimes I’ll look at them and chuckle or agree with the insight espoused, sometimes I’ll devote a few seconds… Read More My New Identity in Christ
When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. – Proverbs 16:7 We last looked at The Fruits of the Spirit nearly one year ago and The Sermon on the Mount just short of two years ago. I have no valid excuses for… Read More No God, No Peace – Know God, Know Peace
In the 1998 rom-com You’ve Got Mail (#46 on my Favorite Movies list) Meg Ryan’s character laments “I live a small life. Well, valuable but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it or because I haven’t been brave?” I must admit that I often have a similar inner… Read More My Neighbor’s Ass
Please check out Part 1 & Part 2 or else you will be thoroughly confused. Thanks!! I had said for several months, as church friends would interact with me online or I’d see them at family events and they would say they missed me & encourage me to come back, that I was bothered by… Read More The End of My Sambatical From Organized Religion – The New Hope
If you have not done so, please read Part 1 of this trilogy. Otherwise the rest of it won’t make a lick of sense. Eventually the time came that I was able to get back out & about. I have never lead the most adventurous existence, and the church had been a huge part… Read More The End of My Sambatical From Organized Religion – Part Deux
Nearly one year ago, right after Easter, I exited the church in which I grew up and had attended regularly since I was a child. I had not returned until today. The cause of my initial exit is trivial, important only to me. There were valid issues, but some problems can just as easily be… Read More The End of My Sambatical From Organized Religion – Part 1
On the night of December 31, 2010 I sat at The Bachelor Palace alone…except for Rocco….gently weeping and asking God to send me somebody to relieve the loneliness & lift the gloom. I’ve never told anyone that, and I’m not sure why I have decided to be so revelatory now. Maybe I have finally realized… Read More Under A Blood Red Sky Nothing Changes On New Year’s Day
I did my best But I guess my best wasn’t good enough I gave my all But I think my all may have been too much ‘Cause Lord knows we’re not getting anywhere – James ingram, Just Once I used to work for a company that tried to sell the employees on the… Read More Doing Whatever It Takes To Go Above & Beyond While Giving 110% And Leaving It All Out On The Field
