Renee

“A person overtly expresses distress, but it is covertly gratified at the prospect of the satisfaction they can wring from their misfortune.” – Dr.…

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. – Galatians 6:9 I find successful…

Our culture’s interest in all things zombie – The Walking Dead series on AMC, zombie movies, zombie apocalypse enthusiasts – is puzzling. The creatures…

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent…

How do you keep the music playing? How do you make it last? How do you keep the song from fading too fast? And…

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. -Psalm 139:23 My wife Renee and I were reading Psalm…

Ever read a verse an entirely new way? I just did, and it’s been simmering in my head ever since. For sure, we need…

They drummed it into us in Psych 101 and it reappeared for analysis and debate all throughout my education in the 80’s – Freud’s…

It was a Sunday night in February 2013, and I’d been conked out for nearly an hour when Renee’s outraged cry jolted me awake.…

I’ll feel comfortable in a coffin when it’s my time, because I like boxes. Clear definitions, simplicity, nice, tight boundaries, that’s my style. So…

I can still remember a happy morning three years ago when I made my shoulders sore from patting my own back. I felt like a king,…

They used to drum it into Psych students as a foundational truth – Freud’s Structural Hypothesis, the theory that our minds are composed of…

Of course I’m zoned out, aren’t you? Yesterday’s carbs have fully kicked in, and that alone constitutes a Christmas hangover. But there’s so much…

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. ~ Ruth Bell Graham Even on the best of football teams,  fumbles happen. Or passes get…