Archive for November 2023
The Fall Life happens so quickly. You’re standing in the middle of the highway of life looking down the road toward the future, and on the glistening, heat-baked asphalt is the tiny, wavy, mirage-like image of a vehicle headed toward you. You know instinctively that the vehicle is your future. You‘re enjoying your daily snack… Continue reading The Fall (to be enunciated as one would Monty Python’s “The Larch”).
The Cornhuskers were 5-3 after our win over Purdue game (a game that I attended), and I knew that in the last four games we should be able to win at least one, enabling us to reach the magical six wins to be bowl eligible. I also — seriously — thought that we had a… Continue reading It wasn’t supposed to end this way
Change happens. With chronic illness, change isn’t always in the right direction. But here we are … what are we going to learn from it? This has been an exciting fall for me. First, there is Nebraska football. I won’t ago into details, but the gist of it was that I get to see Husker… Continue reading It Is Well!
“Enjoying the game?” asked the man sitting next to me.I glanced over and recognized him immediately.“Oh, hi Jesus,” I said. “How long have you been sitting here?”“Since the start of the game” he said with a smile.“You mean you’ve been here for three innings and I haven’t noticed you?”“That’s about right,” he said.I guess I’ve… Continue reading Jesus and the Game