When I was younger, I relished church talent shows and putting together several acts each year that  we staged them.  Churches are already abuzz with vast talent and people typically enjoying the chance to showcase their abilities and have fun doing it.  Off and on for nearly 40 years, I’ve taken advantage of the chances to entertain, well, because it is really pretty easy to do.
As a compulsive writer since school days, I have always found it easy to come up with some clever script.  Pick some well-known entertainer and mimic …

I spent three hours today ringing a Salvation Army bell outside a Frys store at Rural Road and Southern Avenue in Tempe.  I will be there at the same time next Saturday 4-7 p.m.   My stint today was as a volunteer from my Kiwanis Club of Tempe. Next week, it will be as a board member, and secretary, of the Tempe Salvation Army Corps.
The red kettles and the bell-ringing outside of retail and food stores is a part of the Christmas season in America and across the world. The beneficence …

It is never a good thing that death brings people together. But going back eons in most cultures, the death of folks have created reunions for the living. If it is a cruel excuse to bring people to reconnect, that is a good thing.
That said, it was breathtaking on Sunday for the massive turnout of Tempe’s prominent and faithful to attend the memorial service for Leonard “Len” Copple, a civic leader and former Tempe city councilman and vice mayor. The service for the 68-year-old attorney was held in the lovely …