History, Real Life, and Faith
Are you guilty of accent borrowing? I am. I was mortified the day I attended a training session and sat beside a woman from Australia. We chatted happily until the session began and the instructor asked the dozen of us for an introduction. My neighbor said her name, and added that while she was from Sydney, she was delighted to be…
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t like failure. I don’t like to fail and I don’t like watching other people fail. But in conversation lately, I’ve been thinking about the good that can come from failure. It just depends on how you look at it. Definitions are always helpful. Failure: 1. omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : failing…
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The joy and need for kid translators in Slovenia, and the rest of the world!
My Zumba teacher employed some World War I slang this morning as one of our dancers hurried out to work. “Good luck in the trenches!” The class all laughed, as did I, but my mind didn’t follow Becky out the door. Instead, it hunkered down at the word and I marveled at how events from 100 years ago still live in…
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Fancy that! Lion hunting in Europe–today!
I learned something about thanks my second year of college and the lesson came from the band director Kelly James. Kelly, as we called him, had been the band director for many years by the time I arrived in his clarinet section, and since I wasn’t a brass player (the UCLA band is known as having a “solid gold sound”), I didn’t…
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