I have in front of me a brightly-burning Yule log.  I am watching a fireplace fire on TV-36 here in the San Francisco Bay area in California.

Do you think virtual fireplaces are a strange invention?  I mean, they give out no heat and the snaps and crackles of water vapor exploding from the logs seem artificial. Read more »

I remember by school years quite well.  I remember Mrs. Love, an art teacher that never gave up on me even though my stick figures were not recognizable as, well, stick figures.  I remember detention hall for shooting spitballs.

I also remember Christmas Carols.  No, not Frosty the Snowman or Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.  I remember O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark the Herald Angles Sing, O Holy Night, O Come All Ye Faithful and other Christmas songs that actually mentioned Jesus, the Christ, our Savior. Read more »

If you believe the useful idiots now in power in the congressional and executive branches, you would think that God, our Creator, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ were never intended to be mentioned in our government and is expressively prohibited by the non-existent separation of church and state that some liberal black robes created out of thin air. Read more »