Those of us who are Christians have been taught about a triune God also called the Trinity. Over the years I have come to form my own visions about just what that means. I am going to share them with you here. But, before I do I am not trying to convince you that I am right or you are wrong about your spiritual beliefs. Some of us choose different paths to our heavenly links. The Trinity is supposed to be made up of three different entities: God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. I first … Continue reading Triune God….

Yeah me too. One thing I have discovered from my long life is Ignorance is bliss more times than not.. Continue reading Not Knowing — Bliss….

When’s the last time you heard of a millennial friend or relative getting a raise or a promotion in their current job, excluding a new degree or new job? Almost never, right? Employers rarely give raises anymore, outside perhaps a standard cost-of-living adjustment. If we want a new opportunity, we’re told we need a new degree or certification. Most often, we have to switch jobs.Job hopping is often the only way for us to move ahead. I know friends who are waiting a backlog of managers or supervisors who (might) retire in 5-10 years. The choice is clear: wait out … Continue reading No Raises Anymore….

In the US, it’s always seemed like the answer was “extrovert.”  Being social is lauded and most people seem skeptical of all that skulking about that introverts do. There’s no doubt research has shown a number of advantages to being a people person…. What about more social areas of expertise, like leadership? It definitely gets more complex. Extroverts are better leaders of passive employees, introverts shine with proactive workers: …although extroverted leadership enhances group performance when employees are passive, this effect reverses when employees are proactive, because extroverted leaders are less receptive to proactivity. SOURCE:  Introverts or Extroverts: Here’s Which One Has It … Continue reading Introverts or Extroverts…

I am no way a sports fan but it is hard to ignore the size of the baseball bat in downtown Louisville KY.  We spent a pleasant weekend in that city in the Spring of 2010. Continue reading Louisville Slugger

“Now someone else has to choose between working and spending time with their family,” Fisher said. Kmart has said that it asks for volunteers to work on the holiday, but other workers, like Kekoa Wailehua from Hawaii, said that they have been explicitly told they cannot request off on Thanksgiving or Black Friday. The petition has almost 10,000 supporters. SOURCE:  Why the poor can’t catch a break on Thanksgiving – The Week. Shame on us vapid consumers for allowing this to happen. Why do we insist on others having to be away from their families on perhaps the most family oriented … Continue reading Shame On Us…….

I would like to believe that we are all accountable for our actions. We should all learn that actions have consequences. It is something every father should teach every son and every mother teach every daughter. But there are also things in life that tell us otherwise. Some of us Christians have the idea that since we are just miserable sinners God does not hold us accountable for their actions. We therefore believe that God doesn’t really mind whether we do what he says because he knows we are so weak and pitiful and therefore expects nothing from us, including accountability. Some of us say our actions … Continue reading You Are Accountable For Your Actions… Or Maybe Not

A Snippet here…. A Snippet There….. Continue reading The Absurdity Of The Beltway Rhetoric….

I can’t remember how many times I have been to Mackinac Island, I think four but maybe more. It is a peaceful place without cars. Bicycles are the main mode of transportation. Continue reading Mackinac Island, MI……

AT&T has completed upgrading its fiber-network in Austin, Texas, to 1-gigabit-per-second broadband speeds, the carrier said Monday.The Dallas-based company, which started the Austin upgrade in August, has been working to increase the speed of its U-Verse with GigaPower fiber network from 300 megabits-per-second to 1Gbps. AT&T is racing to bring faster Internet to customers before its competitors. SOURCE:  AT&T finishes rollout of 1Gbps connection in Austin – CNET. I am one of the fortunate ones along my road in that I am within the 1.5 mile distance from the AT&T central office. I can get my Internet connection at 0.003 … Continue reading AT&T finishes rollout of 1Gbps connection…

Self-driving cars would also create all kinds of positive possibilities in urban design. Tech-enabled transportation companies such as Uber and Lyft believe they can undermine the idea that every household should own a car or two. While the drivers for these companies are all human now, automated cars would be even easier to share because they could spend all their time on the roads. This could be the future—after all, Google GOOG is a major investor on Uber. Cars that aren’t beholden to a single driver would mean cities wouldn’t have to use up so much valuable land on parking … Continue reading Community Cars….

How many of us are guilty of buying a certain brand of jeans or sneakers because we liked the way they made someone else look? We don’t just want to look like that person, we want to embody a bit of their identity by wearing the same costume. Brands are everywhere, and sometimes, as Swarthmore psychologist Barry Schwartz told us in “The Paradox of Choice,” deciding between them can be so overwhelming as to discourage making a purchase at all. But often, we know what we want: the consumption choices we make are guided by how we want to see … Continue reading Just Who Are You???

Are we depriving our children of the ability to take risks in the future. Many of the things I did as a child would never happen today. Things like walking five blocks to school without an adult. Or discovering the mushroom plant four blocks from our house. Yeah maybe I fell out of a tree I was climbing there and fell on an iron picket fence doing some pretty serious damage but… I explored the neighborhood at the young age of 10 years old. About the only rule was that I had to be home for supper. Are we over … Continue reading Keeping Safe vs Taking Risks…

I was recently part of a Bible study where the tone – and apparently intention – was quite different. As the leader asked a series of programmed and predictable questions (literally from the back of the book), I noticed that almost everyone seemed to be looking at each other warily as if they were searching for the ‘right’ answer. And they seemed to share the assumption that there was – and should be – only one ‘right’ answer. And, above all, that the ‘right’ answer should be comfortable and familiar and should certainly not challenge any of us in our … Continue reading Those Comfortable Christian Questions…

One of my long time hobbies is to take pictures of barns, that is the old wooden barns of the past. This is a prime example of an elegant one in the Midwest. Continue reading Barns….