Ex Cathedra

The Orange County Kennel Club  show at the Warren Tabernacle  actually
gave me something to smile about. And to pile miracle on top of miracle,  the CNN site had
something worth reading.
Obama said Sam Nunn was one of the wise people whose counsel he
sought, along with his 87 year old grandmother.  Unless I’ve lost my ear
for politics, [...]

Here’s an article in Beacon Press’s blog about Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s mom
When my son Robert was 8 or so, I saw him do a one-handed pull-up on some
bars by the pool and took a look at his lats and said “Backstroker” or maybe
“Chimpanzee.” I never was really sure.
He made pretty good progress through swimming [...]

I’ve accumulated these recently
words and phrases that don’t belong in apologies:

If I as in “if I misunderstood” or “if I called you an ignorant jigaboo” . Unless you’ve been possessed by demons or a suffered a sudden fit of amnesia, you know perfectly well what you did.
if you as in “If you were offended [...]

We were off the air for a little while.  Last month iTunes charged our card $200 and then gave $100 of it back. When we showed our bank that we hadn’t spent anything there in a long while, they decided that was way too weird and gave us new cards. So for a while all [...]