A good quote by Jeff Noblit at the Building Bridges conference in Ridgecrest, NC: "Those of us who hold to the doctrines of grace* should have some." A hearty "Amen" from this 5-pointer. * "doctrines of grace" refers …

I love fusion. Fusion is jazz after the style of some other music or instrument. In the early days of jazz, the banjo was a key instrument, but lost its standing among the trios or jazz orchestras and was relegated onl…

Earlier, I had mentioned my cousins who have built a punkin' chunkin' catapult for competition. I finally got a video together from the footage I shot at the Iredell County Pumpkin Festival last month:

I'm a Trekkie. For the most part I have enjoyed the character development, pseudo-scientific context and problem-solving, and situational continuity in the series. That said, Star Trek has hardly been written from a C…

As dry as it's been, the leaves have really been pretty. The other morning it rained (yay!). When I walked out, it had stopped, but the rain had scattered some of the leaves and the morning sunlight filtered through the …

I haven't seen this movie yet. It has won the coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival. Rebecca Hagelin made the comment in her article that "Usually, whe…

Team Tominthebox, of the satirical blog Tominthebox News Network (TBNN) held a competition for an honorary doctorate for readers who commented with a short satire of their own. I entered, but didn't win - yet. Here wa…

My old drama instructor encouraged me and my fellow thespian hopefuls to perform with rhythm. As we rehearsed, she would clap her hands to indicate the tempo into which we were to place our actions on stage. Inasmuch as …

If you have to ask, then you aren't cool. I had to ask, so I'm not cool. Actually I'm generally copacetic which means "Very satisfactory or acceptable; fine" according to Houghton Mifflin. This is probably the first defi…