Sermonette?
Copyright 2008, Ben S. Pollock Unexpect the Expected Living up to your potential means failure if you drop out early. There have been moments, or a little longer, maybe moments and a half, in the last two weeks where I ponder, “I almost died,” which moves to, “I almost got crazy bad hurt. Now what?” […]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock How do anyone know how much to give, to what to give to? Let’s label this, charity. Non-profit, that could be lots of things besides charities. My professional organization, can you call that a charity? A wing of it is a card-carrying (tax ID) non-profit and sponsors an annual scholarship […]
Close Calls for Second Chances from Second Sight Copyright Ben S. Pollock 2008 Brick paused. Posting this month has been more inconsistent than usual. Bricks do get started but tossed to the slag heap. The lump, with its gaps and off corners, can be reshaped or mushed with others. After all, none of those has […]
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports … the thrill of victory … and the agony of defeat … the human drama of athletic competition. … This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports!” — Stanley Ralph Ross, famously intoned by recently deceased Jim McKay. Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock II of […]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock I of II Decades never start on a zero or one and never end on a nine or zero (depending on how you count). The 1960s, for example, was (not were) approximately 1967 to 1974. Beginning in my 20s — which started when I was 22, the week after I […]
Somewhere is some writer’s well-constructed remark — if I knew where to start searching I’d be there — about the fear of no one ever reading you is only slightly scarier than the thought your works are being read. Relatives who live many states away, I learned on a recent family reunion, read me with […]