If you vacation with a pastor and his wife you don’t expect to hear about the church back home. After all, your clergy friend is on a much-deserved vacation. Yet, interesting stories surface. Here are a few that were recently told to me by a friend I’ll call “Pastor Jim.” —Party Geese: This is what…
Singer Ani DiFranco performed in my city recently. Curious about her, my internet surfing led to some of her great music. Ms. DiFranco is a political activist/artist in the mold of Peter Seeger and Arlo Guthrie. I am quite certain if we drank Fair Trade coffee together we would have lively conversation. What intrigued me…
The coffee, juice and cookie snack is almost over by 3:30 pm at the Good Samaritan Senior Center. It soon will be time for hymn singing. My 85-year-old mom, now legally blind and down to saying only “yes” or “no” most of the time, enjoys hearing the great songs of faith—Tell Me the Old, Old…