Parting Words

Parting Words June 15, 2014 I always admired my father’s tools as a child.  My father was big into tools, because my father was big into fixing just about anything from broken plumbing to broken bikes to broken engines.  There was nothing my father could not repair,...

Strength in Weakness

I remember, as a teenager, being invited to a friend’s church for a special “crusade” one evening.  A group of Christian body builders, known as the Power Team, had rolled into town.  They had come to flash their chiseled forearms, flex their six-pack abs, pull...

The Road Goes Ever On and On

A few years ago I hiked the legendary Half Dome in Yosemite National Park for the first time.  Adventurists have been making that 17-mile trek for more than one hundred and thirty-five years.  The first person on record to make the ascent was George C. Anderson, who...