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Padre Steve Muses on Turning the Big Five O
“When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.” Casey Stengel Fifty years ago today after putting my mother … Continue reading
Filed under Just for fun, Loose thoughts and musings, philosophy
Oh the Pain…Padre Steve’s Kidney Stone Naming Contest
Getting set to pass the stone Well I spent a good part of the last night and early this morning with the Abbess visiting my friends in the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Emergency Room. I had been in pretty bad … Continue reading
Filed under healthcare, purely humorous
Padre Steve’s Thanksgiving Thoughts
The Abbess: “Steve would you pray for the food?” Padre Steve: “Dear Lord we pray for this turkey and all of it’s relatives on this Thanksgiving. We ask you to comfort them in their sorrow and give them your peace. … Continue reading
Quick Thoughts and Thank You’s
Milestone Birthday Well friends, today is going to be a busy day as I get ready for the final part of the Abbesses’ milestone birthday celebration. Tonight we are having friends over to celebrate and it should be nice. Only … Continue reading
Filed under Loose thoughts and musings
Surviving Birthdays, My Closet of Anxieties, Rumors of Revolution and Coups and a Losing Streak Ended
I didn’t mess up the Abbess’s Birthday this Year…Cheers! I am terrible at doing birthdays…mine included. Unfortunately this can be detrimental in my primary and many other relationships. In particular I have made my fair share of messes when it … Continue reading
PTSD²: Learning to Live Together When Both of You Have PTSD
The Abbess and Me The Abbess and I have been married 26 years. We have dealt with PTSD for all of that time. Now we did not always know this was the case, not until she received the diagnosis back … Continue reading
Filed under iraq,afghanistan, PTSD
Class Acts in Baseball: Tommy Lasorda
“Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you’re up in the stands with them.” Tommy Lasorda I have had the privilege of meeting some great baseball players and managers over my lifetime beginning … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, philosophy
I Have a Reserve Component Marriage: Lot’s of Time Married but Not So Much Together
The Abby Normal Abbess aka Judy and I were married back in June of 1983. I had been in the military a bit under 2 years at that point and the week before had been commissioned as a very dashing … Continue reading
Filed under marriage and relationships, Military
The Battlefield of Jabez’s Mind: The Prayerfully Purpose Driven Five Love Languages for the Late Great Planet Earth
Pondering the Imponderable Since selves are very hard to help I am amazed daily with the latest self help books “baptized” with a smattering of Bible verses which are marketed to the hungry hordes that inhabit our Late Great Planet … Continue reading
Filed under Loose thoughts and musings, philosophy, Religion
