I Try So Hard To Goof Off, But I Can’t

by Kevin Burton    Today is National Goof Off Day, but I don’t feel up to it.     The National Day Calendar is amusing for all of us. It will have four to six thing of the day offerings each and every day.  It’s a salvation for a blogger some days when ideas for content …

Church Attendance Declining In United States

by Kevin Burton    Church attendance is down, way down, in the USA, reports the British newspaper The Guardian, citing two main reasons.    The worldwide Covid pandemic is the first, understandable reason. For a while there, few people were going anywhere. The second reason is more troubling: Americans are giving up on Christianity.     …

Your Corny Marching Orders, March Forth!

by Kevin Burton    You may call it trite, or corny or worse, but people will be focused on it in three days’ time.     Some people anyway.    There will be people using the fourth day in March as motivation to begin work on that special project, the great American novel, or that great …

Don’t Miss The Moments Life Brings You

by Kevin Burton    Somewhere between the art of science and the science of art, I dropped the ball and missed a moment.     The girls were up from Oklahoma between Christmas and New Years Eve. The girls are our now-ten-year-old granddaughter on my wife’s side and her five-year-old step sister by living arrangement, not …

A Day For Making A List, Checking It Twice

by Kevin Burton    In the aftermath of a Boeing B-17 plane crash in 1935 administrators and pilots invented a way to make sure all safety procedures have been followed, and stopped relying on the pilot’s memory.    This was the birth of the mighty checklist, according to the National Day Calendar.  Today is national …

Be On Time Sugar Bear, Don’t Be Late

by Kevin Burton    Are you aware that there is a National Be Late For Something Day?    Well, it was two days ago, Sept. 5.  Surely then I have succeeded, having delayed recognition of it for two days?    Would have been difficult to comply on the actual day because I didn’t have much …

Sonic Booms Or Bust This Fantasy Season

by Kevin Burton    I’m not going to tell you how many mock fantasy football drafts I have done on Yahoo.   Don’t ask me cuz I ain’t gonna tell ya.    You wouldn’t remember the number anyway. It’s not important.     I use my time wisely. My kindergarten teacher was obsessed with how we used …

This Is One Plan I Can Execute For Sure

by Kevin Burton    Not today, baby. Nope.    Not feelin’ it.    Yes the clock is tick-tick-ticking just like on 60 Minutes. Yes, I hear it.    The winds of progress are whipping as usual, making the pages of my calendar flutter seductively.    “Got to get a move on,” both clock and calendar …

Quibbles And Bits: Lawyers Under Oath?

by Kevin Burton    Who’s hungry for some quibbles and bits?!…    The cat litter my cats use is called Vibrant Life, which strikes me as funny. Vibrant Life sounds more like a megachurch.    Vibrant Life a kind of paper litter, which at first did not strike me as funny. It’s more expensive than …

Making Good Use Of Trapped Time

by Kevin Burton    It’s twenty minutes to 10 a.m. on a Saturday. My wife and I have agreed that Bible study will be at 10.    She’s on the phone. I have twenty minutes to use or lose. What to do?    I can’t get into a project that’s too complicated, but neither do …