Musings at Altitude

I’ve been struggling mightily with love lately…loving those who may not agree with me…loving those who may adamantly oppose me…loving those who in their own actions seem to show no love at all…loving those who support something that I may believe in my core to be appalling…and the list goes on and on. But God’s […]

How do you get a 13 month old young lady to focus? You get on your laptop. You get on the web and search for “I Love My Lips” by Larry from the Veggie Tales. You turn it on, put the cursor in a safe place, let her play with the keyboard, and within seconds, […]

For the 4th time this week, I’m having fried catfish – twice at lunch and twice at dinner. I can remember only one other time this year when I’ve had something 3 or more times in one week – halibut chunks in Anchorage. That was pretty good. This week with the fried catfish was awesome! […]

Over the past year, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to get to know staff, students, and big time fans of the University of Houston…but my interactions were in academic arenas and not athletics. Yesterday though, I sat down at the end of the day to relax and the University of Houston just happened to […]

This is the 3rd September in a row that Denise has flown out to North Carolina to meet up with her sister Charlotte.  They join together each year in memory of their Mom in a walk to raise money for ovarian cancer research.  Though Mom lost her battle with cancer, she left behind a legacy of laughter and […]

For the last 12 months, I’ve had a local office in Colorado Springs…living and working in the city where I really want to live and work, and commuting daily (when I wasn’t traveling) for only about 20 minutes each way at the most. That may be the norm for many of you, but for me, […]

It was 20 years ago when I first heard The Dance by Garth Brooks.  Back then, I listened to the song over and over again, memorizing that very last line – “My life is better left to chance; I could have missed the pain; but I’d have had to miss the dance.” I remember thinking how […]

There’s nothing quite like taking two little children out for pictures, even more so when one is 13 months and the other 5 months!  During the first session, it seemed like they did the perfect poses with the perfect smiles when the photographer was off doing something else! So I snuck in a picture while […]

I joined the ranks of the 49 year olds yesterday. And I’m paying the price now (3:00 in the morning) for eating the birthday cake late in the evening! That’s part of being 49 too I guess. The body doesn’t process things like it used to. And being up late at night is the body’s […]

I heard an amazing stat on ESPN last night…since the 2006 season, the mighty, mighty Trojans have lost six games during the regular season, all to unranked opponents and all games that should have been won.  I remember the Stanford game; and the Oregon State game; and now the Washington game.  Each game was a […]