A brush with Elvis…

Had a really great lunch today with Dean Vegas, Jack Smink and Jaqueline “She Is the King” Feleich, who are in town performing in the Elvis Festival this weekend.
It’s always great to meet new people, but especially when they’re that entertaining. Very nice people, check them out.

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Day 30

Today ends my official experiment in going vegetarian for 30 days.
I was not 100% faithful to it – I did cheat on a couple of occasions.  It can be really difficult in the Deep South to abide by a vegetarian diet, particularly when you eat out a lot.  And when your only alternative is a [...]

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Reading: The Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited

Around the holidays I usually ask for books.  Sometimes this bulk of material gets stuck away on a shelf and I don’t get to it like I planned.  I found this book on my shelf, completely unread since I received it this Christmas.  And since Amazon has been delaying my last shipment, I completely devoured [...]

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Surgery

Renee came through the surgery with flying colors.  The lump was malignant, but did not appear to have spread to the lymph nodes.   We’re being warned that she will need chemotherapy and will get hit pretty hard with it, so we can use all the positive energy you can spare our way.

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Reading: Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man?

Tuesday we stopped by the bookstore and having a shipment of books already in-route from Amazon, I grabbed a magazine.  On the way out, I saw this in the bargain book bin and since this ~250 page book was cheaper than my magazine, I got this instead.  I have Charles’ other book and enjoyed it, [...]

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Diagnosis

Most of you who follow this are already aware, but for those not in the loop, my wife will be having surgery next week to remove a lump from her breast.  It is suspected to be either pre-cancerous or Stage 1, but we won’t know anything for certain until we actually have the surgery.  Your [...]

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Reading: The Reluctant Parting

 
Just finished “The Reluctant Parting”, a wonderful book on the New Testament from the perspective of a former-Christian, currently-Jewish author.
It was a good overview of all 27 books, including authorship details, cultural practices and the Jewish perspective on a book written exclusively by Jews and read by almost none today.  The most stimulating bit of [...]

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Track: Family Time

I was playing around tonight and put together this instrumental, which might be worth keeping around. You can listen to it here.
I really get a kick out of doing tracks with this guitar.  It’s funny how my best sounding acoustic guitar is an electric.

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Reading: Man’s Search for Meaning

I read again “Man’s Search for Meaning”, an incredibly moving book from Holocaust survivor and therapist Viktor Frankl. The autobiographical part of the book is stirring. The details of Logotherapy wore a bit thin on me this time around, since much of it was old news.
I don’t really relate to the [...]

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Personal triumph

I’ve been trying a 30 day trial of going vegetarian this month – now officially on Day 6.
The really noteworthy thing about today is that I managed to eat at both a Shoney’s breakfast bar and an Olive Garden dinner without consuming meat or excess fats or sugars.  It was hard.  I really wanted to [...]

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