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  • 2 Corinthians 8: The Joy of Giving

    Paul continues by addressing his audience as brothers and sisters. When I was a kid, the old pentecostal churches used to refer to each other in this manner. “And now Sister Sarah is going to play us a special on the piano.” It’s a warm way to greet our church friends.  Paul reminds the Corinthians…

  • Taking Care

    One of the requirements of passing my insurance producers exam was learning about Medicare and Medicaid. It was a bit dry, but import because a significant portion, 20% and 21%, of our population is on one of them. Do we even know what the programs do?  In a nutshell they are both medical insurance, the…

  • The Tutorial

    Last week I started a new side-gig, tutoring middle schoolers after school. It’s a program in Cornelius, a smaller community just west of Hillsboro. The time commitment is just 90 minutes, twice a week, but still managed to make me nervous starting out. I’ve been instructing adults for the last two decades, so it’s been…

  • Insomnia

    If you listen to conservative news commentators, there is a strong insistence against anything “woke”. What is it to be “woke“ and why are certain people so strongly against it? Basically, the term means a person who has recently become aware of systematic racism, as in “awoken” to a problem that has been occurring for…

  • 3 Bags of Trash

    I am decluttering the house, again. I did the bathroom and our bedroom last week, and I am focusing on the kids’ room this week. Yesterday, I did the major purge of everything on their floor, on and under the bed. So far we’ve discarded three big bags of trash. We had to get rid…

  • The Human Struggle

    I am just finishing up listening to Demon Copperhead on audiobook. It was my commute entertainment for my summer course. I have to admit that got over halfway through the story before realizing that it wasn’t just familiar to another plot, but exactly the same as David Copperfield. Not the magician, but the Charles Dickens…