…through The Valley of Elah Well, I went and did it again. That is, I put a film on my Netflix queue without any idea of what it was really about. But I got lucky this time with In The Valley of Elah. Based on actual events, it stars Tommy Lee Jones and...
. . . bet on it. The Lord’s in there somewhere. I’ve written about Forrest and Lakin Huckabey before. He’s the shrimpy guy (despite this, his best high school sport was basketball) who did two tours as a sniper in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain...
And then you die? Did you see the recent stories and pictures of climbers stuck in a human traffic jam trying to get to the top of Mount Everest? I saw them while on my recent trip to Scotland and England. At least 11 people died attempting to scale Earth’s...
The more they stay the same: Palestine Our intrepid Gang of Seven tourists is now down in Bath, England. But I’m still catching up on our trip through the narrow byways of Scotland. There, forbidding, windswept peaks rise out of gorse covered moors that plunge...
Old Beyond Their Years I met Forrest and Lakin Huckabey at the recent Project Sanctuary Retreat where, again, I did K.P. duty. And trust me, I’m not complaining. Before the week was over, I got to know the couple well enough to ask if I could interview them...
Fiddling while Rome burns I spend many hours blogging at my local library. They regularly host events on a wide variety of topics. I rarely take one in; its tough enough for me to keep on track without one more distraction. However, recently a program called...
