September 23, 2026
Some time ago, a friend invited me to hear him speak at a luncheon meeting of one of the civic organizations in a city near my home. I was seated between the speaker and his lovely and charming wife. After the presentation, he opened the floor for questions. My friend...
November 27, 2025
For many years, Thanksgiving was quite a big deal at my mother’s house. When I was growing up, often as not Thanksgiving found our military family in the throes of moving to my father’s next duty assignment. Some years, we had just packed our belongings to move, or had just...
May 25, 2025
There are many new changes to The Surly Curmudgeon which took nearly a year to complete. Most are "under the hood," but some of the cosmetic changes and performance enhancements will be apparent to website visitors as will the new contact and subscription functionality.
July 20, 2024
As I do research for my Bible Studies and other writing, I frequently find notices such as the one below attached to the Wikipedia article about Rephidim – mentioned in Exodus 17:1-7 as the location of the Israelites’ rebellion against God and Moses because they had not found any water...
May 14, 2024
I realized today when I tried to add a comment to one of the Bible Studies that comments have been broken since forever. There was a setting in the All-In-One WordPress Security plugin that was blocking them silently. I apologize to anyone who may have tried to comment on a...