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So, it started out as a good idea: a quiet, few days with friends in Florida between Sundays. We would visit familiar eating and shopping places, see some Florida friends,...
So, it started out as a good idea: a quiet, few days with friends in Florida between Sundays. We would visit familiar eating and shopping places, see some Florida friends,...
Last week, as I was organizing, I ran into an old, battered, paperback Bible that I received in my “youth”. On the cover, in some 1970’s-type font, were the bold...
A BLOG by PASTOR KEN RICKETT Have you ever “rubbed elbows with history” – meaning that you know or have personally met someone who “made history?” Certainly, most of us...
It was March of 1983. I was living in Seattle, working as an actor and in my church when a golden opportunity arrived…Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were visiting! Now you...
In 2013 my parents passed away within months of each other. Being an only child (which was wonderful, by the way) I had the task of going through things when...
Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even had dreams about, going back and starting over…beginning with my Freshman Year in High...
He walked in through the doors from the narthex of the church, where I had just started working as Music Director, and he looked grumpier than usual. “Oh, good.” I...
It’s no secret one of my favorite places to hang out after a rehearsal, performance, church, or to write and work (while eating and drinking) is SCAMPY’S ANNEX. For those...
a BLOG by Pastor Ken Rickett Just a few days ago I started a 3,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. When I opened the box and put all the pieces in 5 separate...
24601: That is the number the prison gives to identify the man known as Jean Valjean, the protagonist in the book and musical, LES MISERABLES. 24601. The number is not only given...