Year: 2026

That is the question I’m exploring. I’m no expert, just a man with lots of questions, and no answers. There will be no sage advice, I have nothing for you. Probably you will read it anyway 🙂. And if it bores you, blame my cooking skills.  I started to think about that question while I was at a symposium at Mt. Sac college for those who experienced…

Many years ago, my cousin Neil Stern built a set of stained glass windows for the Upland Brethren in Christ church. If you grew up in a church with weird church words, they sat between the narthex and the sanctuary. If you prefer normal words, they sat between the entryway and the auditorium.  Regardless of what words that were used, they lived there for forty years.  During…

You might ask, cost you what? Well, that's the question I'm struggling with. I was decluttering my office, cleaning up some of the files that are laying around, and organizing my bookshelf. And I saw a white notebook sitting in a line of notebooks that I didn’t recognize. What is that I thought? So I picked it up and opened it. I was looking at a schedule…

I have a document on my computer called “Ideas”. Something I started after my stroke. One way to deal with my memory woes is to write things down. How original is that? Some of the ideas that are listed came from my daily bible reading. Some of them came while I was dealing with my recovery. Some of them came from just living my life. They are…

Gripping Tug-of-War — StockCake Slow Demolition versus the Renewal God Offers In my last post I talked about the star over Upland.  It was fun to reminisce, looking backward and looking up. And it struck a chord for me and many of you. It is pretty cool when you can see the good that happened. The post before that was certainly different. It was about demolishing and…