Categories rant

Innauguration

Donald Trump will be my President. And he will be your President. And saying otherwise will make you sound no better than the petulant parents who kept their kids home from school so that they wouldn’t be exposed to Obama speaking on a telecast, 7 years ago. He’ll be my Continue Reading

Categories rant

Why Trump?

I am mystified by the relative success of Trump’s campaign. I can understand he’d have some amount of support. He’s been a media personality for 30 years. He’ll have developed a fan base in that time. But the idea of seriously voting for him for President, on a mass scale, Continue Reading

Categories home

A tiny shelf

I was in a conversation with my friend Jeff, at a housewarming, last weekend. He was talking about painting his porch. But not just painting, because he can’t do just that. There’s the scraping, and prepping, and… And I knew exactly where he was going with the idea. As if Continue Reading

Categories intangibles

God?

“Obey God.” This is a phrase I hear from uber-religious people… friends, family, and strangers. But I don’t understand it. There is evil in the world. Bad things happen to good people. That’s a fact. And the justification I have repeatedly heard — even from my own minister when I Continue Reading

Categories family

Father’s Day

I swear it was father’s day when I started trying to type this. But then… computers. My father really was a computer nerd. Of all the things he got called in life, computer nerd seems the most unlikely. He grew up as that little kid from the Grapes of Wrath. Continue Reading