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  • Random Thoughts from a Bired Train

    (for those not dumb enough to decipher my idiotic subject line, take the first letter of the last word and switch it with the first letter of the word that comes before it) Scattershooting while waiting for two tablets of Acetaminophen to kick in… Had my next Perspectives class tonight. Had to leave at the

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  • The Desecration of the Greens and Other Such Nonsense

    “It’s the ‘desecration of the greens!’” I complained to my coworker Connie the other day. Proud of my feat of wordplay, I disappeared into our office break room before emerging again with more post-Christmas fodder: “It’s the ‘abomination of advent.’” Thud. Not so clever. So much for wordplay! I was describing the “undecorating” of our

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  • Cha… Cha… Cha… Changes

    Change can be a hard thing to accept. Right now my church is going through some changes, with three full-time staffers departing and two new ones coming in. This is just the latest series of many major staff changes. In the past five years we have had nearly 80-percent turnover on our staff. For those

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  • Turning Another Page

    Where did time go? With the stroke of midnight, it will be 12 years since Y2K. Remember that event? Oh yeah. Stockpiled guns and water and food. Bomb shelters and alternative communication tools. Many folks were preparing for civilization to end 12 years ago. Some still are. Only now it’s not Y2K — it’s December

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