Other movies that make me put the remote down:

Top Gun

Saving Private Ryan or any other movie about getting your buddies out of precarious, dangerous situations

Hunt For Red October or any other movie with Sean Connery

Uncle Buck, the only other John Candy movie being Cool Runnings

Glory and most other Denzel Washington movies

John Grisham novels as a movie

Any Indiana Jones movie or that Harrison Ford movie about the Amish little boy who witnessed a crime - Witness, that's the name. Couldn't remember it.

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House Decor Tip #1 - Do not have more pillows on a bed than you have members of your family. That would be immediate family members residing in the house of question.

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Kansas, Iowa, UConn, and Florida. Then Kansas and UConn. Then UConn.

Conservatives are not tolerant of liberals. Liberals are not tolerant of conservatives. One believes they are the keepers of the old faith, the other believes they are enlightend. Neither is correct.

All of the talk of law versus grace seems ridiculous since we live as if ambivalent to both.

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Important marks in a child's life:

1. The day he can tie his own shoes.

2. The day he can go to the bathroom on his own.

3. The day he can bathe himself.

4. The day he can mow the yard.

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It is hard to beat vanilla ice cream with Magic Shell poured all over it, the runny chocolate that freezes hard on top of the vanilla. Two great textures, two great flavors. Have that with a large quilt covering you on the couch while watching NCAA basketball with a window unit air-conditioner humming in the background. And a diet coke for a significant burn after each couple of dessert bites. What's wrong with that? There's nothing wrong with that.

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Finishing the saltine (not fat free) crackers in a package and then upending the package upside down emptying the small bits of crackers and salt that settle at the bottom of the package into your mouth is a simple pleasure.

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I went skiing in Utah since my last post. Park City, Snowbird, Deer Valley. Park City is the best. Bowls to get lost on. Runs to race on. Double black diamonds to slide down face first on.

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"Rumours of Another World" by Philip Yancey is on my table.

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If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, Mind your own business, and Jesus says, There is no such thing as your own business.

Frederick Buechner



...for this was all thy care - To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds judged thee perverse.

John Milton

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"Crimson Tide" with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington is a movie that makes me put the remote down.