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Here’s how we all sing ‘Joy to the World!’ with passion

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How hard would it be to relate to someone who you have never seen? How difficult would it be to communicate with someone when you talk and they don’t speak back? This is a dilemma that mankind has faced from the beginning with trying to form a relationship with God. In the Garden of Eden,…

They don’t make cars like they used to

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The subject matter here was planned for the week of October 14 but “a strange thing happened on the way to the office.”  I received a diagnosis of “Squamish cell cancer in a lymph node on my neck” –  resulting in seven five-day weeks of radiation therapy concurrent with six weeks of one-day chemo therapy…

A Very Merry Aqua Velva Christmas 

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Everyone has certain smells they associate with Christmas: Grandma’s home-baked bread or the scent of a fresh-cut pine tree—or, as in my house, the scent of a newly erected cheap plastic Christmas tree.  But for me, the fragrance of Aqua Velva aftershave lotion and Christmas will always be connected. In the early ’70s, I was…

Football plus some horrendous traffic in a trip Dallas

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I went to the Big 12 Championship game in Arlington, Texas, to watch Oklahoma play Baylor on December 7. I had never been to the AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, so I was curious about what it was like. I had seen the stadium on television many times. Of course, I have been…

Look for toys that are safe but bring your family together

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I shouldn’t be alive. I’m serious.  As I was placing my grandson into his high-tech, tornado/nuclear proof car seat (you have to be a Ph.D. or under three years old to operate it, and I’m neither), I started thinking about the difference between the world I grew up in and his. If you’ve been reading…

Songs of Christmas evoke some sentimental memories

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One of my favorite things about Christmas is the music. I grew up singing Christmas carols at church (and at school back then) and they have stuck with me. I even learned on in Spanish – O Pueblecito de Belen (O Little Town of Bethlehem). Here are some of my favorite Christmas songs: – White…

A 68-year-old Christmas stocking adorns our Christmas tree

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When we first had our kids, my wife wanted a real tree. I told her that wouldn’t be practical because the sap would run out of the tree and the floor would get sticky. She then reminded me that we had two sons, and everything in the house was already sticky. Once again, I had…

Capitalism is not the cause of environmental destruction

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Speaking on November 25 in the European Parliament (EP), left wing politician Mick Wallace voiced a hopelessly misguided theme we will likely hear more of during the big UN climate conference being held in Madrid from Dec 2 – 13: ‘capitalism did it.’ According to people like Wallace, the main problem for the environment is…

I’m going to get my grandchildren toys for Christmas

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My daughter told me not to buy any more toys for my 18-month-old granddaughter for Christmas. Right. I have only been a grandparent for 18 months and that is not a whole lot of time to spoil a granddaughter. And now, I have twice as much spoiling to do thanks to the birth of my…

The Bible says there is a time to weep and a time to laugh

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We had a meltdown this week in the Moore family – not in our home but in the home of our grandsons, Titus the Honorable and Cohen the Goodhearted. It seems that when Titus got home from school one day last week, he discovered that his longtime pet, a Siamese fighting fish, had died. Titus…