Real Life and Other Randomness

Sometimes writing is a celebration. The writer chooses a subject and holds it up to the light to inspect its beauty and paint it so with his...

I am a sports fan. I am sometimes a highly illogical sports fan. It's okay; I own it. I'm not the sort of person who believes th...

I love to gamble. For someone as cautious as I am, it seems illogical. But I come from a long line of chronic gamblers, and genetics are a b...

I had a student once, just a couple of years ago.  Here's what I knew about him then: He didn't talk to me. He didn't even rea...

Today is Veteran's Day. While I am always thankful for the service of our troops and veterans, it's hard to celebrate only them toda...

Big news on the Fantasy Football front.  BIG news. I won.  Again.  Two weeks in a row.  Repent now, sinners, because I'm on a hot stre...

When people ask me what I do, I usually tell them, "I do God's work."  And then when they give me a strange look, I add on, ...