Rick on September 28th, 2008

Let’s see - the last time  David (youngest son) stayed with us in Minnesota, he managed to get past every safety we had put into place that would ensure both our sense of security and his safety, and he did it all in grand Houdini fashion.
This time I could have seen it coming - but [...]

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Rick on September 25th, 2008

I will be out of here at 5:30 am or so tomorrow, on my way to Richmond, Virginia. A chance to get caught up with old friends, spend some quality time with two of my sons, and perhaps take a long overdue inventory.
Who knows? I may even come back with some of the lyric ideas [...]

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Rick on September 24th, 2008

With all the excitement about how we may be getting ready to enter a new Great Depression (not!), this little tidbit out of North Korea (and this one out of Israel) may have slipped under the radar for most folks. It seems like only a week or so ago that the media was filled with [...]

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Rick on September 18th, 2008

ABC News had this as an item on their evening news program, and it caught my attention. It isn’t every day that a national TV network does a segment on any aspect of religion, and it was definitely an interesting - if all too brief - story. Unfortunately, the graphic elements brought up one of [...]

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Rick on September 16th, 2008

I ran across this article over on MSNBC tonight, and got a chuckle out of it; not for what it says or how it says it, but for the way it affirms the truth of what Paul of Tarsus wrote so long ago. For those who are not familiar with the Book of Romans, here [...]

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