I don't ride horses, wear cowboy hats, hunt deer, or eat barbecue brisket.But I am Texan.It's hard to understand if you're not from there, but if you are you know what I mean: it's always home.So I was excited to travel there this past weekend with my 18 year old son...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five ‘Always’ & ‘Never’
"Always" and "never" are words you're never supposed to use in marital spats (or that you're always supposed to avoid), but I thought I'd give some of the leading "always" and "never" moments from my life.1. I've never won at Bingo. And in doing nursing home ministry...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things About Having A Son
As I posted last week, my daughter celebrated her 21st birthday on September 2.Well, yesterday my son Riley turned 18.Twenty-one and 18 . . . two major milestones.Anyway, as some of you know I was in the early days unsure about my ability to be a father to a son. I...
Twenty-One Years Ago Today . . .
. . . I became a dad.We lived in Georgetown, Kentucky, I was in my last year at Asbury Seminary, and our daughter Taylor Charlotte Davis was born at the Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington.I still remember that she had a head of thick dark hair (like her mom, of...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things I Like About The U.S. Open
If you like tennis, the end of August and beginning of September really is the best time of the year. Almost like a two-week Christmas, except with good weather.It's the U.S. Open.Here's are the five top reasons why I like it:1. It's the truest test in tennis. The...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Guilty Pleasures
Here are my (current) Top Five Guilty Pleasures:1. Payday Candy Bar. Lunch is simply not complete without one. Or two.2. Pardon The Interruption with Michael Wilbon & Tony Kornheiser on ESPN. If I could be home everyday at 5:30 p.m., I would be. Insightful and...
Some Things I’ve Learned Through Personal Experience
Here are some random things I've learned through the years from personal experience . . .People feel valued when you remember their name.If you go cheap, you get cheap.Rogaine helps you keep what you got better than it replaces what you lost.Regular fasting brings...
A Boy Of Summer
Time Magazine recently featured a cover story called The Case Against Summer Vacation.So in response, I put together some things I miss about childhood summers. I don't know if those dog days helped or hurt my academic progress, but I sure loved them. Here's...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Led Zeppelin Songs
My goodness, I loved these guys in high school.I never wore the T-shirts or had the hair or did the drugs, but I sure loved the music of Led Zeppelin. I even remember getting permission one night to see the midnight showing of their movie The Song Remains The Same...
A Lesson At The Safeway
Most Saturdays when I was a small child, I would go shopping with my mom at the Safeway Grocery Store in the Snider Plaza shopping center near our home in Dallas, Texas.And every time we'd go, I would ask her the same question as we neared the end of our trip: "Can I...