Miscellaneous

Several years ago, my wife and I were in a restaurant eating a sandwich with our 9- year-old granddaughter Alicia who has an eye for noticing little things that are going on around her. We had just finished our sandwiches, and we were sitting at the table visiting and enjoying a few minutes of time…

Have you ever had one of those experiences which you can remember twenty plus years later as clearly as if it happened yesterday? I have and this story I am about to tell is an example of one of those experiences.​My dad and I lost our wives 17 days apart so during the recovery process…

Mrs. Bouck, my fifth-grade teacher, had a profound and positive impact on me, even though many of her teaching techniques would no doubt be unacceptable today. In fact, if she were one of my grandkids’ teachers, I am certain I would be leery if she were still using some of the same approaches she used…

Sewing clothes is an art form that I believe is being lost in today’s society. My mother was an excellent seamstress and made beautiful dresses and other clothes for my sisters. However, she limited her sewing to my sister’s clothing and as far as I remember she didn’t make any clothes for me (she did…

In the spring of 2017, I traveled to Bamako, the capitol of Mali, Africa with my grandson, Calvert, to visit his dad and my son, Lt. Col. Paul Cazier. Paul was stationed in the US Embassy as the military attaché and was the highest-ranking US military officer in Mali. Mali is a land-locked country in west…

A short time ago I was lying in bed trying to decide whether I wanted to get up and start my day or if I wanted to keep lying there and pretend to be productive. While in this contemplative mood I picked up my phone and started scrolling through Facebook. Of course, when I do…

One Sunday morning several years ago, my father was in a leadership position in his church. On this particular Sunday he was in a meeting with other leaders and during the meeting a man in their congregation who no longer attended was discussed. Dad was curious as to why this man of great faith had…