Here’s a piece I wrote several years ago, after a hot summer Sunday when the air conditioner wasn’t working at church. Enjoy! In Garrison Keillor’s fictional boyhood home of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, air conditioning (A/C) was placed in the same category of suspicion as “dishwashers, automatic transmissions, frozen dinners, and liberal theologians,” but until last [...]
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Whatever Happened to Fire and Brimstone?
Posted in The Ligher Side, tagged A/C, bored, brimstone, Church, dozing, fire, hot, nodding off, preaching, sleepy, summer, sweaty on June 15, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The 50-Mile Walk
Posted in The Ligher Side, tagged 50 miles, 50-miler, America, Bobby Kennedy, C&O Canal, fifty, fitness, hike, JFK, miles, towpath, walk on June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My friend Randy said he wanted to walk 50 miles in one day, that it was something he had wanted to do since he was nine years old, when President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to get fit. Kennedy had heard that during Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency army officers had been challenged to walk 50 miles in [...]
Lighten Up
Posted in The Ligher Side on June 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
There was a time when I blogged regularly, purposefully, about “important things” that “needed to be said.” I must have said all those things. I find that I don’t have much energy for blogging these days. The very idea makes me sigh. But maybe that’s because I think I need to write about important things [...]
