When I was a kid, I’d go to work with my Dad on Saturdays. He was a milkman for a long time, and this is when milkmen would have to get up at 3 in the morning to be sure to have the milk delivered in time for breakfast for most of their customers. I remember around daybreak we’d stop somewhere for a hearty … Read the rest…
Love To Hate
I’m consistently astounded at how many people right here in America apparently love to hate. By that I mean they seem to truly get their kicks from hating others to the point of even murder. In the past two days I’ve read articles…not by choice but by chance…that talked about things like: Two 12 year old girls stabbing another 12 year old girl…they wanted … Read the rest…
All Things Have Become New
If you could look around at all your old stuff and suddenly say “wow, all things have become new”…wouldn’t that be an awesome treat? Yeah, if our “things” in this world didn’t wear out, rust, mold, mildew, and generally deteriorate with every passing day, we could have a lot of spare time on our hands. It would be such a blessing not to have … Read the rest…
We live in particularly dangerous times. To some extent humans have always lived in dangerous times, but when you pause and consider what’s going on in the world…there are a lot of really mad people everywhere. What do you suppose makes someone so mad they wreak havoc and danger on their fellow human beings? I’ll venture a guess… …they don’t have the love of … Read the rest…
It makes perfect sense to buy insurance for your car or house or other personal reasons. Writer singer illustrator, Tony Funderburk, says eternal life with God makes the Most Perfect Sense It makes the most perfect sense to get eternal insurance that’s already been paid for. I mean…c’mon…if you believe your “stuff” is important enough to insure…don’t you believe your soul is, to? Let’s … Read the rest…
Someone asked me, recently, if I had ever sung a wedding song or had ever sung in any weddings. I smiled to myself because I immediately saw myself as a 19 year old young kid singing in my first wedding. Not MY wedding…the first wedding I had been asked to sing for. It was my girlfriend’s sister’s wedding, a Catholic affair in a small … Read the rest…
Back in 1990 I was living in Colorado during a time of depressed economy and a general feeling of lack. But I wasn’t letting it get me down. I actually wrote quite a few songs that year. Some of them were pretty good, and I still play them. Others were more forgettable, but that’s the way songwriting is. I remember feeling like I was … Read the rest…