Vern Sanders

There’s Something in the Air…Hold On…Hold On… This is a bit longer than usual, so bear with me. You can’t see it, but before I sat down to write this, I put on full body armor, because I wouldn’t be surprised if the comments get ugly. As is often the…

Music and worship ministry is filled with recurring tasks. One way to make repetitive tasks easier is to use “fill-in-the-blank” forms, which we have for you…

Ten Important Things… You will notice I didn’t say that these are the Top 10 things I’ve learned. If there is another thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that the “Top” 10 things can change. So let’s just say that when I sat down to write this, these were…

UPDATE: It appears as if the dotdotdotblog site has been compromised by a hacker. When (and if) that gets fixed, this warning will be taken down. In the meantime, caveat emptor. Long ago (and, in most cases, far away, like the picture accompanying this post) I was fairly diligent about…

Repeatable Motion… There is an expression in baseball (see title of this post) that, in a way, makes no sense, and yet it makes perfect sense. (one of the interesting things about language is that a native speaker will “get” things that, on the surface, make no sense at all)…

This Was Before the Cloud… I’ll never forget seeing the headline of this post on some notepaper of a fellow packrat friend. It has stayed with me for years, and I’ve gleefully used that line often…and often at my own expense. In case I haven’t mentioned it before, I come…

Do Over… In an e-interview, noted blogger Daniel Scocco was asked and answered the following question: If you could go back in a time machine to the time when you were just getting started, what advice would you give yourself…? 1. Make sure to create value 2. Focus on one…

it is all about the sandwich… Ok…to put this in perspective, Jon Carroll is one of my favorite writers. His columns appear in the San Francisco Chronicle, and, if you read them, you either are a fan of his cat columns, or not…(but that’s another story). [update…Jon has retired from…

with apologies to Willie Nelson… I’m traveling today (well, actually not today, because I’m writing this on Monday…but today if you read this on the day it is posted…). I love to travel. I hate to travel. Ultimately, I love to travel. I just want to do it on my…

with apologies to Judy Collins… One of the most fascinating (to me) things about life today is just what I’m doing now. I’m sitting in the kitchen while my wife is cooking dinner, and I’m writing a blog post. <pause while anyone born before 1980 stops to think about that…