My last trip to Deadwood caused some unnecessary worries about my health. I’m known for killing off some of my readers’ favorite...

“A veteran is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to the United States…” So, a popular saying...

I wrote last time about my retirement stealing, plan frustrating, worst enemy. He’s still around lurking in some corner ready to pounce....

Sherlock Holmes had Moriarty. Jean Valjean had Inspector Javert. Peter Pan had Captain Hook. Epic heroes need a ruthless villain. Like my...

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every...

I’ve heard it said that everything old is new again. I pray that is not true of men’s bellbottom jeans. However, given the flamboyant...

“Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulcher, and he saw, and believed.”  ~John 20:8 I resisted titling this...

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”  ~F. Scott...

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  ~John 1:1 The Word that the Apostle John wrote about...

Horror fans will recognize the question taken from the opening scene of Twilight Zone The Movie. One definition says horror is a monster,...

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint…” And Jacob said, Sell me this day your...

“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.” ~Bullwinkle J. Moose Every week the moose tried to produce a rabbit out of an empty...

“And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”  ~Isaiah 65:24 The...

“The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.” Solomon When you’re approaching the beginning of your...

“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” Paul to...

“…our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.  ~Thomas Paine Those words are from Paine’s...

With a view to action experience seems in no respect inferior to art, and men of experience succeed even better than those who have...

What’s the last horror film you watched that you really liked? I heard the question posed the other day and took a moment to think about...

“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye...

Would it surprise you to learn that I have always wanted to be odd? I like Sinatra’s music, but I’ve never wanted to be in New York or...