Where to begin…where to begin? I’ve tried a lot of careers with my major stay being in public education, a true missionary field if there ever was one.

My current position as the Executive Director for the Missouri State Teacher’s Association position has allowed me the opportunity to write a column for an educational magazine for over twenty-two years and to become a speaker/presenter at the same time. I didn’t realize I had the gifting to do these things until God revealed them to me. Admittedly, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at what is right and wrong about the mess public education finds itself in today and will share that the base of many of those problems simply mirror our national values, mores and the unnecessary governmental interference in America today. Continue Reading »

He who stands best, kneels most.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the1500s:

These are interesting…

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Continue Reading »

It’s the start of a new year and I started carrying a man’s purse on occasion to tote all the stuff I heretofore have stashed away in pant’s pockets and on my belt. There was nothing wrong with carrying things there, but as I’ve aged and put on a little weight around the middle, my backside has seemingly shrunk and if my pants are too weighted down…well, you get the picture. To reassert the fact that I’m still a manly man and that my man’s purse (formerly a small zippered purse on my golf bag where golfers place their personal things as they play…you get the idea) is simply a way maintain things as they should be (pants in place), I’ve decided to share some of the contents of an e-mail I received from a friend on behalf of men everywhere, who find themselves having to apologize or respond to queries and attitudes that seem to question what we do. So here goes: Continue Reading »

1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business. Continue Reading »

I’ve tried a lot of careers with my major stay being in public education, a true missionary field if there ever was one.

My current position as the Executive Director for the Missouri State Teacher’s Association position has allowed me the opportunity to write a column for an educational magazine for over twenty-two years and to become a speaker/presenter at the same time. I didn’t realize I had the gifting to do these things until God revealed them to me. Admittedly, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at what is right and wrong about the mess public education finds itself in today and will share that the base of many of those problems simply mirror our national values, mores and the unnecessary governmental interference in America today.

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

Men, Monsters, Maidens, Myths and the Messiah…all intertwined in an apocalyptic fantasy…just West Of Eden.

Landscape: West of Eden, the first volume of a trilogy is birthed 603 years following the fall of modern man. In North America, four dominant cultures struggle to survive. The first is a mixture of feudal states combining farming, small villages and a few larger cities where small autocracies are in place. The second is the re-emergence of the American Indian who finds that their former nomadic lifestyle now has the freedom to thrive. The third is the Amish and Mennonite communities whose simplistic and non-technological culture never altered to meet the new conditions imposed by the loss of technology. The final culture consists of living fantasies of ancient lore that exist in this new age including gargoyles, changelings (lycanthropes), centaurs, winged Vaylkeries, fauns and even a few small dragons. Continue Reading »

Political Secrets…Spiritual Warfare…Old Testament Conflict…Headline News as we see it today.

“Gripping and hard to put down…examines spiritual warfare in an engaging way, like Perreti and Dekker, but avoids their tendencies to go too far in exploring the intrigues of evil.” —John Swenson, Pastor, CenterPoint Church

Landscape: A single world economy, one world government, control over every aspect of our lives from healthcare to terminal care. It’s a timely topic that has been discussed not only through the pages of magazines, newspapers and TV, but through Scriptures as well. Signs and warnings will appear as we approach the ‘final days,’ and those actions might go unnoticed and un-reported unless…well, that’s the premise of this story. You’ll quickly identify with the major characters and slide inside their problems, predicaments and potential solutions as they try to survive. Continue Reading »