He’s still out there, but for how much longer? He started running in 1977 and that fact alone should establish him as an old school runner. But it’s not just the amount of time boys and girls, it’s the attitude. The old geezer doesn’t do cardio. He runs dammit. Sure…

Thoughts from a layman. In a previous article I wrote about my experience reading the entire Bible and what it meant to me. In that article, I pointed out that I am not a religious scholar or expert in theology. I don’t even claim to be very intelligent. I’m just…

Salvation is God’s to give, not mine or yours. At the risk of making the understatement of the year, let me say that there are people who have issues with Christianity. Some of those people are outright antagonistic toward the faith while others just have a hard time understanding some…

I do and so can you. — All of us have a certain amount of confidence in the things we do in life. I’m sure that a neurosurgeon has complete confidence in their ability to perform complicated procedures on the brain. Or at least I hope so. …

Is there a more confusing question? It’s hard to think of a more perplexing question than the classic: Why do bad things happen to good people? Harold S. Kushner explored the topic in his bestselling book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. There is no way I could do…

An accidental retirement hobby. My wife and I did not set out to visit 100 microbreweries in the first decade of our retirement. It just happened. Our retirement began in 2011 and within six months the lovely and talented Mrs. Ward and I moved from Georgia to Colorado. We had…

Can it really happen? I have noticed an odd phenomenon over the past decade or so. I’ve gotten more optimistic as I have gotten older. How can that be? My health is slowly declining. I can’t run marathons anymore. I can’t do pullups. I can’t even do the yard work…

Quickly saying what needs to be said. It was just over a year ago that I first heard the terms “elevator speech” and “elevator pitch”. By either name, it is a term to describe a 30–60 second message that intends to get an important point across to another person. …

Is it healthy? Is it not? The lovely and talented Mrs. Ward told me that an apparent controversy exists among celebrities over daily bathing. It seems that certain actors revealed that they don’t bathe their children every day. Predictably, some people were outraged, and others were supportive. In keeping with…