by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 21, 2014 | Caregiving
The request took me by surprise. “Bruce, we have a gentleman here who needs to get to a sober house. He says he can’t find it,” our receptionist explained. Okay. So, I went out expecting to find a jittery drunk. I shook his hand and looked him over, but he was not...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 14, 2014 | Caregiving
I had a lovely conversation with a funeral director in West Tennessee about unusual funeral songs. As we rode along in the hearse across the farmland near Bells and Alamo after a graveside service, he told me this story. He was in charge of the music for the funeral...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 8, 2014 | Serendipity
The summer before my senior year in college, I participated in a studies program in Ibaraki, Japan. One member of our group proved to be especially entertaining. He had mapped out our entire trip, arranging the connections between airports, subways, and train...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 31, 2014 | Caregiving, Uncategorized
On October 24, 1901, a 63-year old school teacher named Annie Edson Taylor garnered some fleeting attention. On this day, she became the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After her husband died in the Civil War, she traveled all over the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 24, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff, Uncategorized
The blue of this water defies description. Accented by the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Lake Tahoe demands attention. Now I see what all the fuss is about. Not long ago, my wife and I had the chance to slip out to Lake Tahoe while in Reno to speak at a...
