At this hour of the morning, while a snow storm is piling up beauty and nuisance outside our door, all is quiet as I think on two things that made today a blessing for me, and for others, and I thank God for the work He continues to do in the lives of those who [...]
Every now and then something will remind me of paradoxes I’ve wrestled with in a new way, and the thing that can trigger the memory can be trivial. For instance, take the graphic to the right, which I stumbled across while clearing out the deadwood on my system earlier this evening. Mac users can be [...]
Any reader here for more than a few posts may notice that I don’t lack a sense of humor; to paraphrase something I said in an earlier post, I like my humor a little high in irony. That may explain one of the reasons I like Despair.com and their take on the world of motivational [...]
For anyone familiar with 12 Step recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous, listening in on a conversation between members of such a fellowship eventually will hear something about 12th Step work (“Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to [...]
Hi, I’m Rick, and I’m an email addict. I never thought that phrase would ever escape my lips or fingers; in fact, a few years ago, I laughed (to myself) as Deane fretted aloud about spending a week disconnected while we were all going to be in the Colorado Rockies. Yes, I’d been online since shortly [...]


