You can safely say that I don’t get out much. Local cultural events here on the prairie - whether they be live concerts or cow-tipping - don’t manage too often to shift me from the schedule I need to keep for work. Movies, no matter the hype, are rarely going to get me to go [...]
When you play in a praise team band, you have to have the ability to change everything on very short notice. Therefore, I propose this as the new praise team mascot and motto for all denominations that have more than a piano player/organist on the platform on Sunday mornings.
As a side effect of aging, coupled with years of having my ears near guitar amplifiers, cymbals, and other assorted musical instruments, as well as my current job which adds in the sounds of jet engines, I’m getting a little harder of hearing these days. Mind you, I’m not deaf by any stretch, but sometimes [...]
It has been a crazed week at work. Flights have been canceled left and right, temps are bitterly cold, co-workers are sick, and as a result my schedule went down the toilet. Nice, predictable, orderly schedule, meet the norm for the winter season; to wit, irregular operations. So then, why is this man smiling?
First, because [...]
Before anyone calls me a Grinch (which designation I’d happily accept, given the outcome of the tale), I’m going on record as not having been fond of a lot of what we now call holidays - holy days - since I started reading and researching them. If you are caught up in the cultural thing, [...]
