All Nations exhorted to Adoration and Praise by TATE & BRADY.Taken from Psalm 100 My newly rebound hymn book, originally published in the 1840s and reprinted with new supplements in the 1850s opens with this 17th century Psalm adaptation by Tate & Brady, known for their “New Version of the Psalms of David” published in…
On a flight home from LAX last summer I was listening to my iPod (the only Apple device I use regularly) and the playlist made it to the album “Canticles“, a compilation by Cardiphonia, and to the song “Habakkuk’s Prayer” by Caroline Cobb. What had been background music all of a sudden made it to…
My dear sister recently succumbed to the rash of challenges for the ALS Ice Bucket campaign, posted her video on Facebook and proceeded to challenge me. Like her, I decided to not waste the water poured over my head. Olivia, one of my granddaughters, asked to help me in fulfilling my response to this challenge, and in our video…
Having a rainy day? Bummed out about something? Sing a goofy song and laugh with Alvin. http://jdackerman.com/miscellany/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/07-Sing-a-Goofy-Song.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
I hate the new instant replay process in baseball. OK, I don’t hate the process, I hate the concept. I hate it in football, too. The game is played in real time, it should be called in real time. It’s that simple. The guy who wrote this article had to resort to name-calling, one of…
As a frequent traveler once again, I often deal with the dilemma this writer bemoans. There is no good answer unless the leaner is considerate. Many are, many aren’t. http://www.frommers.com/articles/7828.html It affects not only laptop use, which I have given up on planes, but on a recent trip home from Europe it affected my reading,…
We just returned from a seven day river cruise down the Rhine and Mosel Rivers in Europe. We stopped in 11 different cities in the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Volendam), Germany (Dusseldorf, Cologne, Koblenz, Cochem, Rudesheim, Mannheim and Speyer), France (Strasbourg) and Switzerland (Basel), and ended the tour with a night in Saint Louis, France so…
These pictures were taken Monday morning, 3/5/2012, at roughly 8:30 AM. These were taken Wednesday morning, 3/7/2012, at roughly the same time. Notice the difference in the snow on the benches. Amazing!
These lessons aren’t mine – I didn’t watch much of the game, only snippets during commercials. And, when you’re watching a DVD, there aren’t many commercials. Instead, they are from Stephen Altrogge, who posted five life lessons he learned from the latest super bowl. Oddly enough, none of them had anything to do with the…
