The Brothers Bright have a song I like called “Awake O Sleeper”. One of the chorus’ I love the most is; Do you hear the lion roar? (Awake O´Sleeper) Stand with me we´ll fight the war. (Awake O´Sleeper) Let no man bring me harm I bear the marks of Jesus....

The last five months have been, at various times; a difficult journey, a wondrous experience, a frustrating  escapade, a flight of fancy, humbling, angering, confounding…..and many more. It has been a time of tears and fears of joys and laughter, and as the time draws to the next chapter of...

How many times have you run into that person that just is so … irritating  …. frustrating … not, you! I mean really! How dare these people not do, say, feel the same way we do! We have a tendency to want others to be like us and we can...

The view out of my study window is not, as a writer, what one would necessarily hope for. There is a beautiful Sweetgum tree in my front yard that is almost perfectly centered in this window. Beyond, where when we moved here there was only pasture land, I have a...

In a recent article there was a line that struck me. The article, by Clay Tarver of the New York Times, was on Jason Everman who played with Nirvana and Soundgarden prior to becoming an Army Ranger and working in Special Forces. Near the end of the article, Everman says,...