2025 – A Summer and Fall of Surprises – God has a Plan and Purpose for Our Lives – Part III

The plot thickens and thickens, as does my saliva. Almost a week after the Saturday night trip to the ER, I was again at Doctors Hospital, this time to have a stent place on my esophagus, so I could eat solid food, and to have an ultrasound to stage the cancer I was informed about […]

2025 – A Summer and Fall of Surprises – God has a Plan and Purpose for Our Lives – Part II

Saturday night, I was at the ER at Doctors Hospital in Augusta. I had an upper endoscopy procedure on Friday to improve my swallow by stretching my esophagus, and afterwards, it was most difficult to consume anything other than a protein shake. Saturday evening, I was hungry and ate some scrambled eggs and grits. Unfortunately, […]

2025 – A Summer and Fall of Surprises – God has a Plan and Purpose for Our Lives – Part I

It was great to retire in January 2025, looking forward to spending time with my wife, Stephanie, and doing some travelling we had been putting off for years. At 73, I was ready to refocus my attention after decades of devotion to various employers, many of those years commuting back and forth to Atlanta on […]