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...

When several things happen close together and each one is worthy of comment, what is one to focus upon in a blog? My solution is to...

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...

Several friends and acquaintances have recently retired or are in the final stages of entering retirement. As I have heard their plans,...

I am writing this on Palm Sunday which is the official start of Holy Week or Passion Week. Palm Sunday recalls Jesus' triumphal entry...

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...

Many products today come with some type of guarantee. Some weight loss products make statements like "Take our product and you are...

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...

Leadership has been a prominent topic for many books and countless conferences over the last two decades. I read my share of those books...

One of the categories that I list for my weekly blog is Random. While I don't use this category very often, it is a category I designed...

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...