Winter temperatures are definitely here. I enjoy the convenience of purchasing refrigerated groceries at lunch and being able to leave them in the car, which has been an option on more than one day recently. I am happy to see Alabama in the playoff, and especially happy to see it come in such satisfying—if nerve-racking—fashion. … Read more
“George Bush is a man of nearly boundless energy and enthusiasm.” I remember a high school textbook of mine leading a sidebar about him with that sentence. I missed being able to vote for him in 1988 by about seven months, and I would have. By the time I had another chance I was a … Read more
Out here in my neighborhood (more or less), according to the flashing arrow sign outside the everyone-knows-they’ll-move-when-the-new-Walmart-goes-in-except-somehow-they-never-did-and-here-we-are “gentlemen’s lounge” Jimmy’s, they are now serving wings. You might have noticed I really like wings. You might have noticed I review wings, with some rigor. And, in the car yesterday after church, my older son and I … Read more