Four weeks have passed since my knee replacement surgery. I am doing well but recovery is slower than I would like. However, it is not...

One of the techniques I use to try and keep my mind sharp (or at least not too dull) is to work Sudoku puzzles. These nine-square...

According to recent studies, there are over 1,022,000 words in the English language. Before you despair, only about 171,476 of them are...

Dallas Baptist University is located in southeast Dallas very near the Dallas National Cemetery. When the Dallas Baptist baseball team...

In 1972, my wife, my parents, and myself were driving back to my parents' house from a family gathering. I was driving their new Buick...

On the first and the fifteenth of each month I pay our household bills. I carefully check the numbers on the bills and then make sure...

On Friday here in Colorado Springs, the day was cold, hazy, and drizzly. That same weather pattern continued over night and into the...

Do you ever reach a point in a project, a vocation, or a process when you simply have to start over? Over the fifteen months that I have...

On Friday, March 28, 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Mandalay, Myanmar, struck leaving 1644 dead, 139 missing, and...

In January 2024 I began writing these articles that I post on this blog. The official title of this blog is The Road Less Traveled based...

(Disclaimer warning: My apologies up front to anyone who doesn't like sport analogies and are not baseball fans.) Spring Training is...

I have been accused of repeating some of my favorite family stories too often. The truth is that with each passing year those stories...

Well, there was no doubt; I had to remember to pray differently than I was used to praying - especially if The Lord's Prayer was...

When you read the title of this post, were your first thoughts taken back to young children who failed to pick up their room or go to bed...

We are in the last week of January 2025. By this time most of us have repacked all of our Christmas decorations and put them in their...

When I woke up this morning, the temperature was -5 and the wind chill was -15. Where you live that might seem unbearably cold or it...

When my grandfather died at the age of 68, my grandmother said, "This is too hard; I can't make it through." But she did. In fact, she...

Last week I wrote about the concluding of a year. As I write at this present moment, it is about 8:30 PM MST on Sunday evening, January...

There is a location in the United States where four states come together. This place has been named Four Corners and there is a monument...

Last week I asked the question "So What Do You Want for Christmas?" I responded with the word HOPE. In a world that is broken and where...