My Pride and Joy

My friend Milkweed (another time, please) used to pull out his wallet and say in his high-pitched, gravely voice, “Hey, you wanna see a picture of my pride and joy?”  And thinking it was his wife or his kids, well-meaning suckers would cheerfully say,...

Cry, Baby

They blamed it on me.  And they were probably right. Yesterday was Baccalaureate Sunday, and neither of our 2 senior preachers made it 2 minutes into their sermons without crying.  Apparently, I opened the floodgates just because I got a little emotional during my...

Upward Reflections | John Sample

 So Doug and Terry asked me to say a few words about Upward.  They told me I had about two minutes.  If you know anything about me, you know there is no chance that I’m only going to speak for two minutes.  So in honor of the Oscars being tonight there’s a...