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...
by Alan Scott | Nov 4, 2022 | Alan
My dad could be quickly irritated. All it took was a little ice chomping, and he would start to squirm. Provoked. Perturbed. Growing up, anyone chewing ice within audible range of my dad became an instant violation of Scott law. You just didn’t do it. ...
by Alan Scott | Oct 28, 2022 | Alan
It was a rare, slow night, and all I could find to engage my mindless boredom was an episode of “Storage Wars.” You know the show, right? Abandoned storage lockers auctioned off to flea market marketers trying to salvage a profit. Most lockers get...
