Inexpensive Gift Ideas As a kid, I couldn’t wait for Christmas. We’d gather at my grandparents’ home on Christmas Eve and there would be gifts and gifts and gifts. Whatever I wanted that Nannie and Papaw could afford, I got—train sets, aquariums, telescopes, plastic models of planes and the Space Shuttle, and anything else I […]

Crying Over a Loss On election night, I watched what once was considered an improbability become inevitable—the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. Yes, I had been saying for two weeks or more that Trump would win, but I did have trouble wrapping my mind around Trump’s victory. Secretary Clinton’s […]

Five Lessons from Election Night, November 8, 2016 I have been a politics nerd for as long as I can remember. In high school, my U.S. Representative knew me by name because I worked so diligently in his campaign. I introduced some of my high school teachers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as I […]

A Good Conscience Toward God I swim a mile everyday—when a neurologist tells you it’s swimming or a wheelchair, you learn to swim in a hurry. Most days I’m there in the morning; typically I’m in the water by 8:30, and I seldom leave the water until 10:00 or so. But, some days I can’t […]

Conflicting Consciences I wrote the other day about the necessity for Christians to vote (or not vote) according to their conscience. Whenever a statement like that is made, some people of God will invariably say that a Christian’s conscience must vote for candidates which are pro-life and pro-family values. Some of my fellow believers are […]