Category Archives: Character
DENOUMENT FROM TRIPLE OVERTIME
When the events of the story conclude, tie up and make sense, you have Denoument. We make resolutions at various times throughout life and to say we’re short sighted would be grotesquely inadequate. Our resolutions are not action focused or … Continue reading
SHOOTOUT WITH GOD
God sometimes demands so much of you that it’s maddening. I was talking to my wife yesterday about a holding pattern I’ve been in my whole life. There is such a thing as too comfortable with who you are. My … Continue reading
BREAKIN’ UP 2.0
Technology has taken “Dear John” to a new level. I parted ways with my mobile carrier yesterday and fell into the arms of another. The beauty of the potentially cataclysmic event was that I didn’t even have to see my … Continue reading
SKELETAL
What holds people up, makes them stand vertical? There’s simple answers and complex ones. There are God-fearin’ folk who would say, “God is the skeleton that supports the human frame.” But if I’m asked a similar question, I’d assume the … Continue reading
TETRIS LIFE
You know good and well Tetris life doesn’t work. Is there anybody 25-40 years old who didn’t play Tetris at some point, who didn’t wait for the long slender piece to get you 6 rows deleted? The piece sometimes appeared, … Continue reading
THE “TROOF”
There’s a reason why the truth intimidates us so. Better yet there’s several. The first principal reason the truth is offensive to people is that it often flies squarely in the face of materialism. People smarter than I wax eloquent … Continue reading
PRAYER
Preachers used to tell this story about a guy who prayed for help after his boat capsized out at sea. Apparently the story goes that a man was treading water when passers by offered a life preserver, a raft and … Continue reading
INHALATION
It could be that we inhale far more than what we need to breathe. In 1999, I spent two weeks in Manila trying to land a job in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). I rode around town in “Jeepneys” – … Continue reading
9-12
Ten years later I still remember that it was a Tuesday morning. I remember that I was watching it all in real time on one of those old tube televisions. I didn’t have a flat screen. But on 9-12-11 I … Continue reading
