I’m a hippy without the hemp pants and the incense. But I could do the incense. I cannot do hemp pants. They make me feel like I should “Hammer Time.” View Post
Archive Tag: parable
Improving Phil’s Garden
A few years ago my father-in-law, Phil, started making trips up from Texas a couple times a year to plant a garden in our backyard for us. He tilled up a square in my backyard and put seeds in the ground. It looked easy. Becky and I watched him work,… Read More
Raise The Roof
This is Jonathan. Or at least that’s what he asked us Americans to call him. Jonathan’s a Maasai, and lives mostly as his people have for hundreds of years in Kenya. He eats only beef, blood and milk, for instance. The entire tribe has been on the Atkins diet for… Read More
Pardon Me
George Wilson robbed a mail coach in 1829, was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang for it. View Post
Rock Stars & The Rest Of Us: A Parable
The music industry needs guys with good haircuts, expensive jeans, tattoos, a supermodel wife, good enough voice and pretty face. In a word, rock stars. View Post