A six-year old once confided to me, “I’m afraid of the dark.”   I was intrigued by the non sequitur, but humbled by the trusting confession.   “So am I,” I said, “I think everyone is.”   “No, I’m really afraid of the dark,” he repeated.  Hmm, I thought.   “Well, I live in the woods where the lights…

“Don’t bite off more than you can chew” These words have followed me through my life.  I was taught from an early age that it was important to finish the things that I started.  It was a sign of bad planning or laziness to give up too soon.  But over the years I started questioning…

Rev. A.J. Galazen, Interim Minister Years ago, I was a member of a church in a diverse, inner city neighborhood.  The location was one of the reasons I had joined.  One evening, I attended a meeting of a committee looking to attract new people to the church.  We had a lively discussion, and there was…

My father worked as an industrial engineer for a toy company, and he also designed and manufactured toys in his own business, so I was always surrounded by new games and toys. For a short time, I worked on the assembly line producing a toy called “Perfection,” which was a kind of hand-eye coordination puzzle…