Posted 4-11-19 Today, April 11th, marks the home opener for the Springfield Cardinals minor league baseball team. This year’s lovable birds enter their home debut with a less than lovable 0-7 record, making me wonder what the “magic” number is (already) for them to be mathematically eliminated in the first half of the two-part season….
Author: Mark Applegate
Christian, husband, and dad...and a workplace chiropractic geek and cornbread chef on the side. I am also happily the Director of Systems Alignment for the SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging.
“O Holy Nights” to Come
Posted 4-10-19 Yes, I’m THAT guy. I am still listening to Christmas music on April 10th. My only wish is that Easter music was so widely created. (I do love several traditional Easter songs too, such as “He’s Alive”, “Because He Lives” and “He Arose” to name a few). It is amazing and it brings…
A Reminder to the Faithful
Matthew 6:25-34 Do Not Be Anxious 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow…
Rub Some Dirt on It!
Posted 4-8-19 According to the Detroit Free Press, rubbing dirt on wounds was first found in literature dating back…wait for it…to 3,000 BC! The article points out that according to the Biodesign Institute, that’s (3,000 BC) when “clay was listed in the ancient tablets of Nippur as a wound-healing medicament.” The institute also said that…
The Valley of Vision
Posted 4-7-19 Today in church the pastor at the church we visited quoted from one of the most amazing collections of prayers in history (in my humble opinion) called The Valley of Vision, edited by Arthur Bennett and published by Banner of Truth Trust. These prayers were gathered from outstanding pastors and are hundreds of…
Gonna Fly Now
Back and forth, the ever-popular hero takes hit after hit. Body blow, body blow, uppercut… and to the mat. Surely the hero is down now? Then the theme music (Gonna Fly Now) comes to mind. Mom is my Rocky Balboa. She has taken a beating by this stinkin’ disease and she is still fighting. Maybe…
Caricatures and Cup Lids
Posted 4-5-19 My stunningly beautiful bride and I have more than a few traditions as a couple. Caricatures and cup lids come to mind as I think through our little topic. Caricatures: We have had at least one caricature drawn of us in each of our three decades of marriage. A caricature exaggerates the real…
Taking Stock of Broken Clocks
Posted 4-5-19 When I was a toddler, I was something of a prodigy. I wasn’t super cute nor was I particularly brainy. No, my IQ was normal, if slightly (?) south of such. I wasn’t a prodigy of a useful subject like math, science or piano, mind you. I couldn’t work on computers… because they…
Points to Ponder from the Online Course
Posted 4-4-19 I took a 15 minute break at work from working on a computer to look at the next module in the online course I mentioned yesterday and it brought up some excellent points. If you still need it, here is the link to the (outstanding) course. This is a reflection section from Module…
Squeeze Inn, and the Medicines of Alzheimer’s
Posted 4-4-19 Hi all! Thanks for returning to the digital cornbread table. 🙂 Today’s topic du jour is, go figure, Alzheimer’s and brain meds. Never to be one to overly mind beating metaphorically dead horses, we need to revisit this discussion since you will certainly battle this should you journey with your loved one toward…