Chain VS Local Business OK, it wasn’t her fault. The woman behind her was on the phone, didn’t notice the red light, and BOOM. She and my Mom who was a passenger are OK, our 2023 vehicle with 6,000 miles was damaged. This is the story of how I chose where it would be repaired. First I went to one of the chain companies. Their big facility…

We see darkly…. Any time a relgious leader, or anyone else for that matter acts like they have it all figured out, run, run fast, run far. Christians generally believe in an all powerful, all knowing, eternal God. So how can anyone that just focuses on the 66 books of…

The two most important words I ever said. Sometimes people need permission or forgiveness for something. When you give it, it can come right back to you. When I got to my 84-year-old Dad’s hospital death bed, he was on oxygen, struggling to breathe. The family had gathered. Many complex…

He really means “make me dictator”. We have current experience on how dictators treat even their own people. The elites fall out of windows, rank and file are sent to be killed to prove a point. How can anyone, no matter their political stripe support this guy? He is such…

Walgreens annual net income for 2022 was $4.337B, a 70.61% increase from 2021. Walgreens annual net income for 2021 was $2.542B, a 457.46% increase from 2020. With all of that profit, it seems like you should be able to keep simple commitments to your customers. My wife and I scheduled…

There are two cell phones in our household, mine and my wife’s. An iPhone 7 and a 7 plus. My wife has the plus. (I know, past their use by date). My wife is a light user, phone calls, texts, and Googles something from time to time. …

It started innocently enough. You agreed to hang out with me, for a price. Like every relationship, we found a balance. We spent almost every day together for five-ish years, you did your part I did mine. Looking back it was nothing more than a relationship of convenience. Eventually, our…

I grew up in a conservative Baptist church. So conservative the Southern Baptists were practically considered Satanists. That was well before they proved they might be with recent revelations. At a minimum, it verged on being a cult. …

The winners and losers in shorts make no sense at all. I recently day-tripped to Downtown Chicago and shot a bunch of random short videos with my iPhone 7. Yes, 7. In case you don’t know the video quality of a 7 is nothing compared to what is out there…