As I Lay Dying

That was an awful book, wasn’t it?  I still do not understand why the Tennessee Board of Education saw fit to make it required reading for 11th grade English.  I mean, I am sure the societal commentary was piercing and the style paved the way for a uniquely American genre of literature and all that jazz, but it just drones on and on and on.  And on.

That’s beside the point, though, and it marks the last attempt at humor for the rest of a post dedicated to a decidedly unhumorous topic:  Death.  It happens, we don’t want it to, now what are you going to do about it? Continue reading

OK, So Three Pastors Walk Into a Grocery Store…

Note:  I will use blog posts to talk about significant events, and let the picture slideshows tell the rest of the story…

A couple of things.  First of all, only 4 days into my grand journey, I have discovered an indisputable truth:  Wegman’s Grocery Store in New York is the most incredible creation ever.  It must have been divinely inspired, because it is absolutely heavenly.  I haven’t even looked at the rest of the grocery store, but apparently you can get food items there that are virtually non-existent elsewhere. Continue reading