The Road To Kingdom Come

This will likely be my last post for 2009 and that’s fine with me and probably with anyone else who has the fortitude to keep up with this blog/journal.
Today was a great example of the way the year has progressed. I slept in a bit this morning but had made up my mind that I [...]

It is a tradition that we spend Christmas Eve with friends that live about 75 miles from here. For the past 20 years or so, we have been at their house eating, laughing, exchanging gifts, etc. I make a bunch of silly comments and become the default entertainment for the evening. This year, for the [...]

This afternoon my wife and I attended the annual Christmas concert presented at my daughter’s high school. It had been postponed from Saturday due to our unusually early snowstorm. and was presented in a slightly abridged fashion.
However, during the school chorus portion of the program (of which my daughter is a member) one of the [...]

The East Coast of the U.S. was slammed with a storm over the past two days. We got our fair share here in central PA. To have over a foot of snow on the ground before winter even officially begins is quite unusual here.
After shoveling the driveway for the second time yesterday I took a [...]

I don’t know if there is a way to present this post so that it will make sense relative to it’s importance in the scheme of my spiritual and temporal life. First some background…
As I have described in an earlier post, I have a younger brother who has some challenges. Fortunately, one challenge has NOT [...]

My computer problems turned into a fiasco. Mr. Cheapo (me) had failed to renew his anti-virus subscription and apparently the cause of my problems may be a virus. Anyway, the techs told me they had to re-format my hard drive which means that all my data gets backed up but all my programs have to [...]

Just a brief anecdote on this, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Adding to the emotional chaos that is my life these days, my home computer decided to stop connecting to the Internet last evening. After speaking to 3 technicians over 5 hours and finally calling it a night at 2 AM, I picked up the [...]

If anyone should happen upon this post I would very much appreciate a brief prayer for yours truly. I am in a bad way right now and am completely lost as to what path to pursue.
As I have mentioned, I have been suffering from some type of chronic digestive disorder for the past few years. [...]