By Reverend Donn Brammer When Marlena was very young, occasionally I would be the one to put her hair in pig tails; and you could tell that I was the one that had done it by looking at the final results. Either they weren’t tight enough and fell apart, or they were lopsided, or uneven,… Read More »

By Reverend Donn: You have probably noticed I am not a ‘fashionista’ or a ‘clothes horse.’ I am never going to be on the cover of GQ magazine for my fashion sense though I might be featured on the inside of the magazine showcasing what not to wear. Our family was getting ready to go… Read More »

By Rev. Donn Brammer In the movie, “Men In Black,” Agent Kay played by Tommy Lee Jones, speaks to Jay played by Will Smith: “1500 years ago, everybody ‘knew’ that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody ‘knew’ that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you ‘knew’ that… Read More »

  By Donn Brammer It’s been a long time since I’ve stood in a line waiting to see Santa, or more accurately waiting with my kids so they could see Santa. And while I don’t think anybody likes standing in a line, it makes a difference why we stand in a line. I might stand… Read More »

By Reverend Donn Brammer Soon we are going to be going back to ‘regular time,’ meaning that Daylight Savings Time is coming to an end. Most people don’t mind the fact that we get an extra hour of sleep this Saturday night, but they do resent that it is now going to start getting dark… Read More »

Back in the day when my kids were young there was a wonderful children’s book, “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.” The illustrations were fantastic and the story line was delightful. In the story a young child gives a mouse a cookie, but if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask… Read More »

  By Reverend Donn I do not plan on selling my house, I like it and I like where we live, so I do not plan on selling it. And I do not plan on buying a house. As I said, I don’t plan on selling my current house and I can’t afford a second… Read More »

By Reverend Donn: Most of us have at least a passing familiarity with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, ‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…’ Back in the 1960’s a pop/folk/rock group called ‘The Byrds’ released a song titled, “Turn, Turn, Turn” using the words of that passage as the lyrics.… Read More »

By Rev. Donn Brammer Some people will sometimes use the summer as a time to read books and there is a certain book I invite you to read that you may have read before. The first and most important thing I will tell you about the book is it is short, very short, about 3… Read More »

School is over but summer is a great time for us to try new things, to continue to learn. We can learn how to swim, how to square dance, how to play guitar, how to paint or learn a foreign language. Some years ago I heard about a woman in California named Florence Detler who… Read More »