More famous last words: (10) Ludwig van Beethoven: “Friends applaud, the comedy is over.” (9) Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist: “My friend, the artery ceases to beat.” (8) George Jacques Danton, French revolutionary, giving instructions to his executioner: “Show my head to the people.  It is worth seeing.” (7) Our very own local, Continue reading

Glad it’s Friday. Over the holiday weekend, we lost power in the refrigerator at the office. Everything in the freezer melted, and it oozed some unidentifiable yellowy substance down into the fridge. Everything in the fridge–much of which had already gone bad–really went bad. But here’s why I’m glad it’s Friday, my day off: Somehow, Continue reading

My brother Dylan sends me the weirdest stuff. Yesterday he sent me an article about a young man who was highly creative in getting himself into trouble. Read the full account here. Continue reading

Communication is interesting.  Sometimes people can perceive something you say in a way that you never imagined they would. In Sunday’s message, I said something about people having premarital or extramarital sex.  I just assumed that everyone would understand “extramarital sex” to mean sex with someone other than your spouse. Nope. On one of the Continue reading

Yesterday I wrote a post on my now-defunct MySpace blog about the incredible customer service experience I had yesterday at Pohanka in Salisbury. It got even better today. My phone rang this morning and it was one of the customer service reps from Pohanka. They were calling to see how everything was going with the Continue reading