Fur Rondy is in full swing in Anchorage. Unfortunately an encouraging month of below zero temperatures followed by gobs of snow gave way to warming trends and slush soup around the Anchorage bowl the week before the snow loving festival began. This puts a major crimp in the traditional Fur Rondy attractions. [...]
We make room in our hearts by:
1. Studying the scriptures: The scriptures teach and testify of Christ. The scriptures teach us how to hear the Spirit for they are the language of the Spirit. The scriptures require that we THINK deeply instead of riding along on the shallow platitudes of passing cultural perspectives.
2. Prayer: Prayer [...]
THE ANCHOR – A few years ago our entire family, grandkids and all, went to Lake Powell. We rented a houseboat which we anchored each night to make sure we stayed in a safe harbor no matter what storms or waves might come up in the night.
Setting the anchor required more [...]
“Human DNA contains more organized information than the Encyclopedia Britannica. If the full text of the encyclopedia were to arrive in computer code from outer space, most people would regard this as proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. But when seen in nature, it is explained as the workings of random [...]
“. . . Ironcally, the picture of the universe bequeathed to us by the most advanced twentieth-century science is closer in spirit to the vision presented in the Book of Genesis than anything offered by science since Copernicus.” Patrick Glynn, God:the Evidence
The weather did not cooperate with the Alaska presidential caucuses. We have had quite a stretch of below zero temperatures. There has been lovely sunshine, beautiful clear blue skies, and double digits below zero (especially at my house down by the Eagle River).
I am a victim of gerrymandering. My voting district is [...]
Monday night I settled down to enjoy the PBS production of “Miss Austen Regrets” which I recorded on our DVR in the early a.m. Previous weeks have seen a collection of new productions based on Jane Austin’s marvelous novels. While I enjoyed these new versions, I felt that earlier versions were better. The newer [...]
No one ever told me at the outset that radiation therapy would shrink my tongue. That was probably a good thing. I had plenty of other things to deal with that were more pressing at the time.
Now that I’m done with the cancer treatment and feeling much improved the shortcomings of my tongue [...]