It had been a long week. My sophomore year I had been working eight-hour shifts the entire week leading up to Christmas as a checker at the United Supermarket back home in Lubbock. For hours I would check out lines of customers, usually several people long, that stretched well into the aisles. The stress level of the customers grew as we all ... [Read More…]

I was nervous. I was anxious. Questions of success and failure loomed in my head and even caused a few tears here and there. Yes, I may have just been six years old, but these were real concerns in tumultuous times. Yet when the day came, I donned my new red and blue plaid jumper, took one last look at my mom and dad, sighed a deep breath of ... [Read More…]

This Thanksgiving gave me ample time to think about what I was thankful for. I had to work on Black Friday at my job here in Abilene, so after a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with my Grandma, I made the drive back to the Big Country. My roommates and I discovered a couple of weeks ago as the first real cold front came in that we had a gas leak. ... [Read More…]

I guess Washington just doesn't get it. Midterm elections should always be considered a referendum on the status quo - a chance for the American voting populace to issue a thumbs up or thumbs down on its representatives. The 2010 election was a tough time to be an incumbent. The Republicans saw a 61-seat increase to take the House, and incumbent ... [Read More…]

From the moment one arrives on ACU's campus, there is a subtle countdown to graduation: you have four years to find someone to marry, tick tock. As we all know, there are only 4,700 Christians out there who are marriage material, all of whom attend ACU. Even though most probably enrolled in ACU to get a Christian education, let's admit that ... [Read More…]

Recyclables are killing culture. The job description of an archaeologist, according to Wikipedia, is to "study past human societies primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data which they have left behind." That basically means one era's trash is another era's treasure. So, when we recycle, we steal a ... [Read More…]

When I was 6 years old, I desperately wanted to be a zookeeper. Stuffed animals, Zoo Books and a mountain of Beanie Babies filled my room. I frequently fed and played with our two dogs, and I begged my parents to take me to the Abilene Zoo almost every day because I wanted to feed the giraffes, watch the lions and make faces at the monkeys. The ... [Read More…]

I can't help but notice the startling resemblances between the Democratic Party and the 2010 Dallas Cowboys. Both entered their reign of power with astronomical expectations, yet have failed to live up to the hype. The Cowboys lost 45-7 on Sunday. The Democrats lost 239-188 on election night. Both are under the guidance of embattled leaders who ... [Read More…]

Good news everybody! I have it on very good authority that any day now the super science community will begin making all kinds of technological breakthroughs. Science will bring us flying cars, 4-D movies and self-drying clothes. In fact, Mattel should be only a few short years away from reinventing the 1980s by introducing us to the world's ... [Read More…]

My family tends to hold on to things till we can't get any more use out of them. Our last minivan had nearly 300,000 miles on it, shook when it got past 45 miles per hour and looked like a step down from the Flintstones car. The only reason we gave it away was because members of our church said they were praying daily that we would come to our ... [Read More…]