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A Visit from Zamboni

A Visit from Zamboni

I ran into an odd pattern a few years ago. It began one October when I was watching a few old scary movies from the 1930s. I noticed an actor named Irving Pichel—he played a homicidal psychopath in Murder by the Clock and the vampire’s assistant in Dracula’s Daughter. The name seemed vaguely familiar. When […]

           Recently we have been engulfed by a flurry of notable 50th anniversaries.  Good grief, did all these things really happen in such a short span of time?  When you’re 13 (as I was in 1969), the time frame doesn’t seem as short; but when you’re 63, it seems like the twinkling of an eye.  […]

A few years ago, I was visiting a lady from our church (during what, alas, ended up being her final illness).  A nurse left the hospital room and called back to the church lady:  “Good luck!”  And the church lady said to me in a half-whisper:  “Lutherans don’t say ‘Good luck.’”  And that’s generally true.  […]

Alec Baldwin is dead! Clint Eastwood is dead! Susan Boyle is dead! Megan Kelly quit her Fox News show ON THE AIR! At least that’s what I read on the Internet... “Fake news” is a major discussion topic in politics these days.  Some even assert that fake news swayed the election.  To be honest, I […]

This month, we remember the day of Blessed Martin Luther’s passing–February 8.  Last month, we commemorated the birthday of another great Martin–Dr. Martin Luther King.  These two Martins have each had a great influence in my life.  From Blessed Martin Luther I learn the Scriptural truth that we are saved by grace through faith.  Our […]

March is a welcome month.  While it does indeed “come in like a lion”–often bringing the most severe snowstorms of the winter–it also “goes out like a lamb”.  The weather begins to moderate, the days grow longer (especially since Daylight Savings Time got pushed back into March), and we joyfully embrace the coming of spring! […]