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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Before they closed Plano’s Collin Creek Mall in June 2019 to make way for a billion-dollar mixed-use development, they threw a big party and thousands came. My father used to walk there several times a week and he could attest that in the final year it had become a ghost town with the only visitors being walkers like himself.

Local media covered the big closing party, with one reveler saying, “You would meet people here. It was almost like going to church.” 

Continue reading “Open All Hours”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

You can learn a lot when you look into another person’s face. You can learn even more when you have a razor in your hand.

Dad was in the hospital for a week and now is in rehab after breaking his leg. He’s always been a stickler about his appearance, so when he hadn’t shaved in several days, I took my electric razor and offered to do the job for him. He’s been a blade man all his life, and in fact when I was in high school or college and someone gave him an electric razor, he tried it briefly but rejected it and I took it. That being the case, I wasn’t sure if he would let me do it but he said yes.

Continue reading “A Close Shave”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Driving up into the Texas Panhandle we witnessed an interesting convergence of old and new on US 287: coal trains rumbling across pastures dotted with towering wind turbines.

Wind turbines represent a promise for the future. Coal trains embody the strength of our past. Both bring benefits to us right now in the form of electric power; both have their proponents and naysayers. Wind energy is clean and quiet but it clutters the horizon. Coal is out of sight unless you live near a coal mine or a coal-fired generator. Coal has an established business/economic model. Wind energy is still subsidized by most governments.

Continue reading “Changes on the Wind”