I don’t remember the first time I went to a music concert. Maybe it wasn’t really a concert at all. Maybe it was when I was in the 7th grade and my family took a trip to Nashville to see The Johnny Cash Show. I remember that clearly. My daddy had tickets, maybe someone … [Read more…]
When I was growing up I can remember a time that my Daddy got tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters. At the age I was I thought they were the best basketball players I had ever seen. I can remember just laughing and laughing and laughing. They could shoot from anywhere and hit “nothing … [Read more…]
Christmas is an important holiday for me. I am sure it is my favorite but it is so important to me. You see, to me, it melds the religious with the secular, the traditional with contemporary and ties it all up with a community and family bow. All my life I have known how important … [Read more…]
I’m not a critic but decided this morning I would put my two cents out there. I’m going to tell you what I think about Dwight Yoakam covering Purple Rain. What, you say. That’s what I said. Dwight Yoakam released a new album on Friday and a cover of Purple Rain is on that album. … [Read more…]
The readings this weekend at Mass had to do with the story of the Prodigal Son. But Fr. Darrell’s take on the reading was more like the prodigal father. And when he was talking this way he implied that the father in the story was the same as our Father in heaven. That made me … [Read more…]
I wanted to write this awhile ago but life got in my way. But I think that writing it now is more pertinent than it would have been a few weeks ago. My baby went away to college. She left me. And just because she’s not the first one to go away to college and … [Read more…]
If I’ve written about this before, please forgive me. I made the mistake the other day to tell my son that when I grow up I’m going to … He came back to me and said “when you grow up?” I need to give him a break. He’s only 15. He hasn’t heard me say … [Read more…]
1. We obsess about the weather. Everyone in western KY considers themselves a meteorologist. They know all the terms, they watch the radar, they can predict the weather better than anyone I’ve ever seen, including those high-priced meteorologists on TV. They have to. They need to know when they will be able to get their … [Read more…]
Sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you. “Words hurt Mom.” Cuts and bruises will heal but hurtful words are a whole lot harder to heal, if not impossible. Somebody hurt my daughter today. No, they didn’t get into a fight with her. They didn’t hit her with a stick … [Read more…]
We were driving into town to go to a little league baseball game. That’s one of the things that we do in late spring and early summer. It doesn’t matter if you know someone playing or not. It’s something to do. And we’re not the only ones. There are people out there, all over out … [Read more…]