I love the game of golf! As a child I watched the televised tournaments religiously on the weekends and admired all time greats like Jack Nicklaus, who was my favorite golfer. When in my first year as a sports reporter, I actually met Nicklaus, it was one of two times in my life that I…
For some unknown reason, we were talked into doing the parent taught driver’s course with my son. Now, every morning when my youngest goes to school, I am a passenger in the car and have taken the verse, “Pray without ceasing” to a new level! Periodically, my son will look over at me and ask…
I turned the radio on today just in time to hear the words, we still have to sacrifice to enter the presence of God. I had to chew on that a little while. Didn’t Christ, the perfect sacrifice, eliminate the need for a blood offering? But after pondering this idea a while, I started to…
Every year about this time I scratch my head and wonder, “What just happened?” The answer is “summer.” When the school year ends in May, I become delusional and think “Now that summer is here, I will get so much accomplished!” I make my list: “Pick up my closet, clean my son’s closet, organize all…
On Saturday, we paid honor to my father in law, two years after he donated his body to the University of Iowa Medical School for study. The Deeded Body Program at Iowa held a beautiful memorial service for the families of all the men and women who chose this selfless path after death. In between…