I’ve been really stressed at work lately.  Everyone at work has been stressed lately.  Late hours, extra work.  We’re undermanned–about 70% manning just at a guess and have been that way for awhile, so this stress has just been building up.  I’ve found myself being really grumpy the last two days and snapping at people.  [...]

Saturday was an historic day for my former ship, the former USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), and I didn’t even know about it until today. So that is why I am posting about this today and not Saturday.  I have pictures of my own, which I will attempt to post soon. Saturday the John F. [...]

Happy Easter, everyone! This is one of my favorite holidays of the year.  It is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.  He died, but He did not stay dead.  This is the most important belief of Christianity.  Some would disagree with me.  They would say Jesus’ death is the most important belief.  And [...]

March 21 is Mother’s Day here in the Middle East.  I didn’t know that until I went to church tonight.  At the end of the service they had the kids come down from the children’s room and sing a song for the adults.  And of course they were cute, and all the proud parents snapped [...]

Today is Good Friday.  It is the day commonly celebrated by Christians as the day Jesus was crucified. I remember reading once I John 2:1,2: My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin.  And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And [...]

Today is the first day of spring!  For those of you in northern climates you are probably rejoicing right now.  It’s finally getting warmer, the snows are gone for good (you hope, especially those of you in Canada), the crocuses and daffodils and other spring flowers are blooming, the redbuds are blooming, the trees are [...]

It has been said that the pen is mightier than the sword.  Swords are powerful.  There are large two-handed battle swords and small, but just as deadly pointed rapiers.  The large swords, which are cutting swords, can cut a man in half.  And that would be a man wearing armor–at least leather or chain mail, [...]

I want to talk about a website I think is a very worthy website.  I found it through somebody else’s blog, but I don’t remember whose, so I’m sorry I can’t provide a link to give credit where credit is due. This website is called freerice.com.  It is a website that is at once a [...]

I’m not Catholic, and as far as I know I’m not Irish, and I’m not from Boston (although I have been there, although not in the fall), but I still think Saint Patrick’s Day is fun.  Besides I think Jeremy has some Irish ancestry on his mother’s side so that counts, right? The thing I [...]

Today is Palm Sunday.  I almost missed it.  I don’t look at a calendar very often. This is the day, Jesus said, that if the people didn’t praise Him the very rocks would cry out.  I’ve always wondered what the rocks would have sounded like. It reminds me of that verse in Isaiah that the [...]