Category: following God

  • “Butt-in-ski:” encounters with an automated mopper

    “Butt-in-ski:” encounters with an automated mopper

    Anybody else like to shop at big box stores with concrete floors? Lately, there has been a ripple, however. An automated floor mopping machine has become the bane of my shopping club existence. It inevitably comes down my aisle, as I peacefully shop–beeping and chirping and spinning its flashing light. At least the contraption stops…

  • Mister Left Lane

    Mister Left Lane

    It was 1957, when my dad and his older brother left rural New Mexico and drove west, all the way to Los Angeles, California. The trip, on the recently finished Interstate 10, went smoothly–until they hit the suburbs of L.A. Six lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic, with countless on and off ramps, was petrifying! The two…

  • The Lord is My Shepherd–Kinda Sorta

    The Lord is My Shepherd–Kinda Sorta

    confessions of a former far away follower