Scrambled Eggs & Corn Flakes

Promises. We do make them a lot. Even if we don't have any intentions of keeping them. How many of us have promised God we would become a monk or nun if He got us out of a jam? Or, made promises to our parents to keep ourselves out of punishment? So, we do make some promises we know we won't keep. Others we do keep and others we try and fail to. When one gets married, we make promises to each other. Vows. What we will do for each other. These are typically made in front of friends and family. Love, Honor, and Cherish. Maybe, obey ;) These are promises that are not made lightly. These are serious commitments made to the one we plan on spending the rest of our lives with. As such, pretty important. We make them for public consumption and keep them in private as well. If you are married, I do hope and pray that you are doing your best to keep your vows. I try, some days better than others. There can be many distractions thrown our way. Life gets in the way sometimes. Our focus ...

The greatest comic-book superhero is Spider-Man. There is no debate, he's the best. You can argue Batman, Superman, Captain America, Green Lantern, or Iron Man - but you'd be wrong. I'm sure they all have their good qualities, but they can't match up to the awesomeness that is Spider-Man (read an issue, tell me I'm wrong). As you can tell, I am ahuge fan of the character since I was five years old and my mother bought me a Spider-Man comic. As I have stated earlier, I have a comic book collection numbering near 20,000 with a good number of them include his character. Why do I like him? First, he started as a teenager with a variety of relatable problems. Money issues, girlfriend issues, people not liking him, family medical issues, and school were just a few of the things Peter Parker faced. Until the day he was bitten by the radioactive spider and got his powers. Sure, he still had his daily problems, but he could escape them while fighting super-villains across ...

Finally, after 52 years, Cleveland sports fans had something to celebrate. The Cavaliers won the NBA Championship. It was a surreal moment, one that I am still wrapping my mind around. I still feel like it was a dream and that once the season starts, we will realize the Warriors pulled it out. This city has been conditioned to expect the worst when it comes to its sports teams (and it creeps into our thoughts about our city). The litany of sports disasters is endless. Red Right 88, The Drive, The Shot, The Fumble, Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, The Browns move, LeBron leaving. Say any of those phrases to a native Clevelander and they will nod slowly and quietly walk away. When the Cavs won, it was like a collective weight on the shoulders of this city dissipated. Grown men cried (acted like fools too), families came together, and family no longer around were thought of fondly. Got to admit, I looked skyward at the end and asked my Dad to help out while watching it at our church. Th...

Originally written back and posted in 2013: One of the things before I started posting these blogs was writing my thoughts in a journal. I have been then publishing them not in the same order as I wrote them so today's blog will contain references to stuff that I have yet to post about (politics). As an aside, I know people from other countries have read some of my blogs - are people in your countries as harshly divided about politics to the point of really despising each other because they don't share the same viewpoint? It seems that way here in the US, I would love to hear from other countries about this sometime. Maybe one day I will write some thoughts on politics, but until then here's today's scheduled blog: I am writing this journal the day after I wrote 10 pages as to my opinions on American politics back in 2012. While I felt better about getting my thoughts down on paper, I felt a little sad and depressed. I might put it online maybe to encourage debate, b...