For some people, it’s planes. For others, it’s heights or crowds. For me, it’s bridges (gephyrophobia, if you want to sound learned). The fear started to take hold in a serious way in the late 1990s when I moved to Cincinnati, home to the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, the longest of its kind in… Continue reading A Bridge to “Now”
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Lent 2013, Day 39: Of Rejection… and Acceptance
HSBC, which once upon a time was the world’s local bank as well as my own, recently rejected one of my credit card transactions simply because the online merchant is based in
Lent 2013, Day 32: Come Saturday Morning
For one last time today, I’m going away with my friends… with my special sisters and brothers in Christ who are my St. Davids Christian Writers Association friends. Here’s how the day will go: I’ll sleep till around 7 a.m. at the beautiful Pittsburgh
Lent 2013, Day 29: Finding Favor
He was a talented but difficult young employee, someone who wanted plum assignments without paying the amount of dues that I, the grizzled veteran and manager, thought he should.