Today is March 15. Today’s post is dedicated to my dad, David Cornelius.  I hope you’re reading, Dad. Dad always liked March 15.  He always liked March 4 too, but I missed that one.  (It’s the only day of the year that’s a command, march fourth.  Yes, I know.  All right, everybody, all together now, [...]

I would like to share a hymn I really like but which is not well-known or sung very often.  If you want to know what it sounds like you can go here.  There are more verses to the song on that website than I include here.  Even more information can be found here.  I think [...]

If you remember from the Peanuts cartoons, Snoopy was always starting a novel with the words, “It was a dark and stormy night.” I found the complete text of Snoopy’s novel. If you like Peanuts and especially if you like Snoopy, go check it out. Also see the background of this phrase, and Snoopy’s Wikipedia [...]

Today is Nathan’s birthday. I didn’t forget, Nathan, aren’t you proud of me?  Nathan, my youngest brother, is twenty-five today. I think that’s a nice age to be.  But it’s also an age that you tend to get your first “mid-life crisis.”  I think it’d be more accurate to say “quarter-life crisis” since I hope [...]

Getting supper was an adventure tonight.  It was brought on by the following thoughts: I don’t want to cook tonight. I have a coupon for McDonald’s. I rode my bike to work this morning, so that means I don’t have to try to drive and park on American Alley, which is where the closest McDonald’s [...]

Hey, I just added a “widget” to my sidebar!  That was some way awesome computer skills in action, folks!  I stole the idea from this blog: 4tunate.  It’s a world map that tracks visitors to your blog.  I saw it and thought, “How can I get me one of those things?”  So I clicked on [...]

I looked at the calendar today, something I don’t do every day, believe it or not, and I noticed that today is the start of Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. (and probably Canada too).  So I thought I’d write about the time difference between Bahrain and the Western Hemisphere since, subjectively speaking, it’s changed [...]

I have been asked to write about the church I go to here in Bahrain.  I thought I’d mentioned it before now, but I guess I hadn’t.  Sorry about that. Jeremy found the church on the Internet.   I don’t know what website he found it at.  So sorry I can’t point you in that [...]

Sorry I’ve been away so long.  I haven’t been literally away.  I just got busy doing other things and so didn’t blog. So here’s an update on the news in my life: In early February Jeremy came home for a couple of days.  That was a surprise.  He literally didn’t know until the day he [...]