Editorials

As I listened to radio coverage of the launch of the Spaceshuttle Atlantis - the historic launch that ended the U.S. spaceshuttle program, my mind immediately went back to  1986.
I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade, but I wasn’t at school. I was playing hooky, pretending I had a headache (not something I made a habit of), and I was on my grandma’s couch. Coverage of the Challenger launch had probably interrputed her regularly-scheduled soap.

This week, At the Cross Mission Inc. announced its own 501c3 status. This means mission organizer and pastor, the Rev. Myers Hyman no longer has to use his church’s status for the mission.
Hyman and others with At the Cross seem excited about the progress they’ve made over the past several years. However, being  “official” also carries its own baggage. State regulations are requiring that At the Cross Mission install a new range hood, and the hood that will meet state requirements could run $13,000, purchase and installation all.

A couple weeks ago, I was talking with someone who works with kids on a daily basis. We were talking about some issues kids face today that we didn’t when we were young.
One of those issues, of course, had something to do with Facebook. There’s no escaping the social media of today. In fact, I was just thinking the other day about how being able to so easily contact my Facebook “friends” was very handy. And
some correspondence that would have taken possibly days before took just a few minutes.

This year’s Thanksgiving wasn’t very traditional for me. For the first time I can ever remember, I didn’t have turkey and dressing and all the fixin’s, and I didn’t watch football. Due to a death in my in-laws’ family and some other exhausting events, we didn’t much feel up to it.
I did, however, lie in bed and watch movies until I fell asleep late Thursday afternoon. I awoke at around midnight with a sore throat, which is another explaination for why I didn’t much feel up to all the Thanksgiving hubbub.