“I have a recurring holiday dream. In it, I spend a day visiting every Salvation Army bell ringer in the city of Chicago. I drop some change in the kettles and offer those kind souls a firm handshake and a sincere thanks for all they do. And then I take their bells. I take their…
A Blue Christmas
I learned that a friend of mine recently led a service called “A Blue Christmas Service”. Some of you will immediately think of Elvis Presley’s song. It was written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson but made famous in 1957 by Elvis. The idea of a Blue Christmas service is to acknowledge that not everyone’s Christmas…
The Bald Eagle – Slave Lake
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)…photos from a May long weekend (2008) on the Shores of Lesser Slave Lake.
