Category: Who Am I
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Before Frost
Hurry before it frosts It’s an annual tradition for me to gather cut flowers the day before the first frost and make a couple last flower arrangements for the season. I enjoy this ritual immensely. It is really the only time I cut marigolds as they are laborious to arrange and they look so great…
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Blogging Versus Facebook
Despite all the other web competition and especially despite the inroads of Facebook, my blog remains by far my favorite social media expression. Here are a few of my reasons. Blogging seems so much more suitable to a writer. The very idea of Twitter is just not me. I desire to measure my words, not…
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A Blogging Milestone
I noticed that the total count of my posts, pages, sermons and comments on my blog has passed the 1000 mark. More than five hundred of those blog events are posts. Just over one hundred fifty are sermon manuscripts of messages prepared since coming to Copper Hill UMC. To be honest, I thought I would…
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Gather flowers before frost
Gather flowers before the frost Last night was the first frost here in West Granby. So for me it was time for my annual tradition, going out and cutting armfuls of flowers for season-end bouquets. I especially associate this tradition with picking marigolds as they are not the easiest to arrange and they look better…
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Migrating left without moving
Observing politics today is disconcerting It is interesting and very disconcerting to me to observe what has happened in politics over the last ten years or so and what is happening this year. I used to call myself a conservative Republican, and even voted on the Conservative line often to reflect that leaning. But in…
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Christmas Village 2015
Each year I try to get in one post about my Christmas village and railroad. Here it is using Sway. Click on the article to see the pictures. You can expand the picture to full screen. Then in the lower right corner are arrow buttons to click to advance the Sway through the pictures…
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Christmas Decorations Can Tell Your Story
I’ve been working on a Christmas post in a new program called Sway. Here’s my first try. (Looks like you need to scroll to see it all. ) I think you’ll enjoy it.
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The Joy of Singing in the Choir
Choir singing is not as popular as it once was except perhaps in black churches. But my wife and I have always tried to bring people together to sing as a choir for special holidays and events. JoAnne arranges for and directs the choir while I sing tenor or in later years, bass.…