Doppelgänger or Space-time Traveler? Since mid-December, I’ve been binge-watching LOST. I watched this series with Chewbacca when it aired, and I admit I was left unsatisfied with its conclusion. So I thought I would give it another chance, watching with a science fiction mindset. It’s incredible how much I missed or forgot! The concept of […]

TOYIN’ Part 1 Just before Thanksgiving, I completed a course on Transitional Ministry. The final assignment was to create a Personal Ministry Declaration, a credo of sorts. We were given autonomy to use whatever methods to speak about the values we hold dear in our own walk in ministry. It should come as no surprise […]

Today’s scripture takes us to the teachings of the Master as recorded within the Sermon on the Mount. In this case, he is teaching a counter-cultural hierarchy of importance and meaning. Too often, and this is nothing new, humans focus on creation rather than the Creator. We place value and importance upon the physical realm […]

Destructive beauty While driving to the church last Friday, I encountered an incredibly beautiful sight. The deciduous trees along the highway were covered with crystalline ice, while the tops of conifers revealed their green. I was beginning to believe that I no longer lived in the White Mountains but had been transported to a new […]

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 When I first read this verse, my mind went to the negative understanding that the days ahead of me come nowhere near the number of days behind me. Gosh, what a bummer! But then I began to think […]

Reflecting Back & Moving Forward If you hadn’t noticed, my bLOG schedule has been disrupted for the past several months. Some of you have missed the routine of reading HitchHiker bLOG (Tuesdays), Something to Think About (Fridays), TANKA Toyin’ (Sundays), and even the musings of Godzilla and deliveries from The Flying Scotsman. So let me […]

Welcome to FONT WARS! I was thumbing through the news feed the other day, and an article caught my eye; it was about FONTS. But it wasn’t people discussing the differences and nuances of Arial, Helvetica, Aptos, etc., but about the font to be used on official governmental documentation. Apparently, there was a change in […]