by Alan Scott | Dec 9, 2022 | Alan
My childhood is peppered with small-town memories I can still taste, see, and smell. Past sensory experiences I was privileged to bank as a kid still pay wonderful dividends when I pause and let them surface. The old library in Waynesville is one such example. In...
by Alan Scott | Dec 2, 2022 | Alan
God is flat-out amazing. This week’s birth of my first grand, Calvin Dawes, only underscored the indescribable nature of our Creator. My daughter Brook had asked her sister Lauren and my wife, Sherry, to join her and Jared for the homebirth of our first...
by Alan Scott | Nov 25, 2022 | Alan
Irony, as a fun mind game, is so much better than a crossword or a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. The mental ability to wrap your brain cells around what is expected and what actually happens forms the stuff of songs, sermons, celebrities, and this email. For example,...
by Alan Scott | Nov 18, 2022 | Alan
Years ago, Sherry and I packed up our four small kids and camped across America. We’re not campers. We got two tents, a borrowed Coleman stove, and headed west, young man. We camped on the Grand Canyon rim. We camped at Bryce Canyon. We drove down stakes in...
by Alan Scott | Nov 11, 2022 | Alan
“You snooze, you lose,” is an anxiety phrase. Those revved-up words keep my fight-or-flight, sympathetic nervous system jacked up and begging for some diffused lavender oil. Nowhere better do the “you snooze, you lose” sentiments get played...
