by Don Freeman | Apr 15, 2023 | Devotional
Once lights are out and I’m under the covers, head nestled comfortably on the pillow, it begins. Eight hours sometimes made up of the weirdest, wackiest situations. Sometimes there are people I know in them, but they are never found in the context I know them when...
by Don Freeman | Apr 13, 2023 | Devotional
Past. Present. Future. Three basic verb tenses we use every day, largely without consciously thinking of the one we’ve chosen. If speaking in a newly acquired language however, we are often arduously conscious each time we come to a verb that needs to be conjugated...
by Don Freeman | Apr 11, 2023 | Devotional
June 6, 1944 was a terrible, and costly, Allied invasion on the coast of France, with over 9,000 casualties. Despite the cost, it is considered the beginning of the end, the turning point of World War II. Many battles followed, with each Allied Forces win pushing back...
by Don Freeman | Mar 25, 2023 | Devotional
GPS, or SatNav for ‘real’ English speakers, is a beautiful thing, especially when set to ‘find shortest route.’ To save even one mile, you may travel twenty miles on secondary roads through gorgeous, bucolic countryside which you would never have discovered without...
by Don Freeman | Mar 18, 2023 | Devotional
With only a bit of vim and vigor but suited up in Olympian runner’s spandex (moving right along), stretching out on the track like the others around me, putting on a game face, checking my shoelaces and my pinned-on runner’s number, I contemplate the 10,000 meters...
