latest
The approval of the drug aducanumab by the Food & Drug Administration for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease marks a new day for millions of Americans.
Read more
Place matters. It can say a lot about who we are, and who we desire to be. When I retired after some 40 years working as an environmental scientist, Freida and I pulled up roots from my ancestral home in West Texas, moving onto 10+ acres of virgin oak-hickory forestland situated roughly three miles outside Canton.
Read more
Some folks only hunt during the cold weather months and I totally understand the reasons. It’s obviously cooler during the fall and winter, a more comfortable time to be in the woods and once the meat is harvested, much easier to keep it chilled. But for many years, I have enjoyed summer hog hunting and have devised some ways to not only be successful but comfortable as well. If you are hunting where there is a walk in cooler to keep harvested game chilled, meat care is much easier but most of us don’t always have this luxury. I hunted with my good friend Jeff Rice on his place near Lake Fork this past week end. The two of us spend a lot of time hunting hogs year round and we have devised a plan that is perfectly suited to summer hog hunting.
Read more
I write a lot about my little friends at church, and I think the most rewarding connections I make with them are those that are hard-won. I patiently worked over a period of months to get one shy, red-headed boy of about 3 just to look at me – further interaction was impossible for him. The fact that his parents volunteer with me, helping our children’s pastor, meant that he and I were around each other a lot, and I was determined to break through.
Read moreDon’t you just hate TV? I mean really… I often wonder why we even turn the thing on. It’s certainly not much entertainment and the news is mostly a joke or a repeat from the previous day. You never know what to believe, even if you could begin to understand what they are saying. If it were not for “Days of Our Lives,”, and “Gunsmoke” reruns, I’d probably chunk it!
Read more
I like sciency stuff. (Yes, ‘sciency’ is a word. I looked it up) So, the other day I became intrigued reading about researchers at Johns Hopkins University meticulously counting the neurons (brain cells) in a tiny insect called a fruit fly, finding 200,000 of them, astounding the scientific community. A neurologist named Dr. Christopher Potter put it this way, “Even though these brains are simple (compared with mammalian brains), they can do a lot of processing, even more than a supercomputer.”
Read more
Andy was only a green 20-year-old when he was called to his very first pastorate out in the Panhandle of Oklahoma. Located in a rural isolated community, this tiny church was accustomed to getting “newbies” as its pastor. Preacher-boys needed somewhere to learn pastoring and public speaking, and that church did a fine job of tolerantly being that somewhere.
Read more