Archive for December, 2007

Christmas eve man-gel

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Christmas eve, and I had to make my requisite stop at Walgreens. Its tradition for me to find something I “need” to commune with the other less than prepared holiday revelers.
As I plunked down two bags of candy at the check out counter, my first bona fide Christmas man-gel greeted me. “Merry Christmas” […]

Christmas angel/Christmas man-gel

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

During this season we honor a great man-gel, a living Christmas angel. Jesus changed the world arguably more than any other human being. He definitely was not a “bubba”. He was a pacifist and communicator extraordinaire. How then are so many who claim to be his followers stuck in a gender […]

Boy friends

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Girlfriends-I can’t live without them. Boy friends-can’t live without them either. Yes, there are men who, as friends, have been in my life forever…through schools, romances, marriage and kids. Just like girlfriends, boy friends are my cushion. They are always looking out for me like an army of older brothers. […]

Women’s Intuition/Men’s Intuition

Monday, December 10th, 2007

For the past several days the subject of women’s intuition has come up repeatedly. The obvious manner in which this talent is used is by reading a person or a situation as healthy or unhealthy for its owner. What if we shifted to using intuition as a mechanism to promote ever greater levels […]

Young man, young man-gel

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Watching the last football game of the year at the local pub, fellow spectators drove the excitement up more than a few notches. Chatting with a young man to my right became a particularly pleasant surprise. He was relaxed and centered even as we joked about hoping for opposing outcomes for the final […]