Christian Pipe Smokers

Eldest daughter will take off for Tokyo mid-June. Middle and third daughter will leave a week after. Wife and I will leave a week after that and I'll return a week before they all do. I'm nervous as heck about sending a thirteen year old in charge of an 11 year old, but we need to start letting go a...

This one weighs on me a lot. Strength and healing grace.

Praying.

I'll be praying for a dear CPS brother I've never met and avoiding the celebrations and feel good stuff like the plague. It's not an easy holiday. Too many scars on people I love to do much celebrating.

Going to bed with you two very much in my prayers.
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Thank you! Life is a joyous, heart-rending, confusing mess on the verge of catastrophe at any given time and I can use all I can get.

Blessings upon all of your houses.

Well, I've got to admit I'm touched. Thank you for your overwhelming kindness.

I could only see what was on the screen allowed to strangers and look forward to catching up on all of you.

I'm a right-handed competitive shotgunner. It turns out that shooting 10k or so rounds a year takes its toll, mostly in the form of bursitis in the left shoulder. At the moment, I cannot move my left arm and I'm a red head with all the genetic pain tolerance of my people. I'd really appreciate a pra...

None of this is a good thing. I cannot imagine for a moment that a Palestinian mother weeps any less nor any differently over her dead child than a Jewish mother weeping for the loss of her own child. Pick sides all we want, the only hope for that region is the only hope for all of us: the peace, ho...

Still has to be Silent Night. Last evening we were downtown Port Neches for the lighting of the town's Christmas tree, before which the high school choir, which includes our granddaughter, was singing. Afterward we were walking back to our car while a small group was singing Silent Night from the s...