“Keep your eye on the ball.” I don’t know how many times I heard that as a kid, but for some reason I just couldn’t get a hit. I played baseball up until about 5th grade, but I was terrible. I could play in the field o.k., but once I stepped up to the plateContinue reading “Smoke and Mirrors”
Category Archives: Immigration
Native Tongue
Many years ago in what seems like another life completely, I was a “car salesman”. I put that in quotes to emphasize that I was a car salesman by title only. I was probably the worst salesman to ever walk onto a car lot. Clearly, it was not an ideal career choice for me butContinue reading “Native Tongue”
Culture and Caffeine
Much of what I have written over the years, both here and on multiple other platforms has come from a deep desire to see cultural walls broken down and allow everyone a seat at the same table. As I mentioned in my last post Border Crisis, cultural differences can’t be seen as “us vs. them”.Continue reading “Culture and Caffeine”
Border Crisis
If you hate anyone because of your faith, you’re doing it wrong the Happy Givers This is super convicting to me…..maybe it is to you, too. I’m convinced that we (as a society in general) have lost the ability to disagree without dividing. We can start to identify ourselves by our own personal convictions orContinue reading “Border Crisis”
I pledge allegiance….
When I say, “Red, white, and blue”, what emotions does that evoke in your soul? For some, this brings feelings of nostalgic patriotism with visions of a Norman Rockwell painting in classic Americana style. Maybe you think about the freedom that you or a loved one fought for, and perhaps even gave their life toContinue reading “I pledge allegiance….”