It’s the story of a mother who gave birth to a son. And the son who holds the fate of the world in his hands. Her name is Sarah. Not Mary. I gotta admit, there’s only about two shows on television I watch with any commitment, so when the announcement came that my one-of-two favorite [...]
I’m just not over it yet, so indulge me. The past week was filled with the wonderful monotony of living. The laughter of my four-year-old. The smells of Thanksgiving dinner. The excitement of our 7-year-old as we decorate our Christmas tree. Running through the park, walking in the rain, fishing at sunset, hearing the lap [...]
Holidays are insane. When you talk to people about the craziness of running to family get-togethers, spending days on the highway and in the car, people always get that nervous little laugh…you know the one I’m talking about? The one that secretly says, "Yeah, I wish I could just stay home and rest, but…whatcha gonna [...]
My allergies are killing me. I can’t breathe. I can’t sing. I can’t talk. I sound like a 70-year-old man who’s been smoking cigars for 69 years, 11 months, and 29 days….kind of like Louis Armstrong. Which got me to thinking about some of the great quotes collected on cigars: If I cannot smoke cigars [...]
Beginning Thursday, I will be offline the rest of the week. Jimmie and I have a dear college and CastMaster friend who lost his mother to cancer this week. I’ll be travelling to far north East Texas for funeral and family activities. Please pray for Kyle and his family. Also, have been experiencing some whack-job [...]
The first-ever tomcottar(dot)org online contest was a great success! Great creativity! After much consideration in a difficult situation I realized a few things. 1. I should have been more congnizant of Buffy (Spike Is My Personal Example) and Fight Club (Soap Inspires Mindless Pummeling of Enemies). Dang. 2. Personal emails sent to me asking "Is [...]
My wife and I got a call last night from her sister. It seems that her sister’s friend has a teenage daughter who’s cutting herself. And what’s really freakin’ the mom out is the fact that she herself use to cut when she was in high school, but never told anyone. Now that her daughter [...]
It was one of ‘those calls’. During lunch last week, I could sense the urgency in the voice on the other end of the phone. Some dear friends of ours were in a car accident. They had loaded up the SUV for vacation, decided to head to one of our favorite deli spots on their [...]
For a metroneck like me…things just get better and better. If I know anything about Heaven, I know there will be at least 2 things there: coffee and fishing. Now, thanks to Jesus and Strike King, we can all have a little piece of that Kingdom here and now. Strike King is coming out with [...]
As many of you know, the phoenix symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well. Mythology says [...]