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Don’t Eat The Hushpuppies!

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Doug

Perhaps you are reading this and wondering, possibly aloud to the bemusement of your fellow Starbucks patrons, “What are hushpuppies?” Maybe you are asking, if you have to scroll for more than a few seconds to get to your birth year on a dropdown website menu, “Why would I want to eat a sensible, comfortable shoe?” Or you’ve possibly taken great…

We Love Us Some Us.

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Doug

Harken back with me, if you will, to the days of yore. But before doing so, notice, especially fellow grammar nazis, that I used the correct spelling of “yore”. Although the less aged among you may find this hard to believe, there was a time before social media and blogs, reality television, digital photography, and “selfies”. Back in the day,…

KEEP LEFT

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Doug

My wife and I traveled to the Bahamas recently, enjoying a long weekend and a well needed getaway. This was our second time in New Providence, having been there before on a cruise. While getting there via a well-appointed Royal Caribbean ship and docking within walking distance of downtown Nassau certainly had its upside, it is somewhat equivalent to visiting central…

Scraping Mud.

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Doug

This is my friend Mike’s old race car which he raced on dirt in the street stock division at Potomac Speedway in Budd’s Creek, Maryland. And while I didn’t help much, I did get to play a very small roll in getting the car ready for Friday night competition. You may be wondering just what the heck the racing surface…

Wait For It…

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Doug

Who among (amongst?) us hasn’t spent a minute or 3 hours killing time by watching videos on social media or YouTube? There are entire digital reams of bandwidth dedicated to whatever hobby, interest, sport, political cause, spiritual bent, or obscure craft that winds your watch. And yes, there are videos about watch winding. Personally, rednecks blowing stuff up, guys and…

Have It Your Way!

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Doug

“Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us, all we ask is that you let us serve it your way…” Those, members of my generation may recall, are the lyrics from a Burger King jingle, I’m guessing mid 70’s? And that, at least as I remember him from commercials and artists’ renderings, is NOT the real Burger King. If…

You da Man!

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Doug

I’m pretty sure the great majority of people have heard, or even spoken the phrase “You da (the) man”! So I went to the source of all information to try and discover its origin. And as is often the case, the Internet was of little to no help in my quest for knowledge. But it has to have started somewhere, right?…

Pokémon? NO!

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Doug

So there I was, simply living my life and minding my own business, and I heard something about “Pokémon Go”. When my kids were much younger, I remember the Pokémon craze, but I thought the cards were only collected, traded, bought and sold. Come to find out, much to my dismay and bewilderment, that people, not just kids mind you, met…

Immovable Object

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Doug

Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. (Isa. 26:4) The LORD God is referred to as the Rock, or even better, our Rock in a number of places in the Bible. And because most of us, especially those that were the original readers of the Scriptures know what a rock is, it is an apt metaphor. One of the most familiar attributes of…

#Hashtag

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Doug

One of the more interesting contrasts between generations is the advance of technology. When I was a kid, amusement and time killing consisted partly of riding bikes, playing ball, tag, war, or hide-and-seek (outside), watching TV, and playing with toys or board games (inside). Lest you think my age peers whiled the day away by whittling, jumping in the swimming hole,…