The Christian’s Role in the Ballot Box
If you haven’t noticed, election season is upon us here in the US and our mailboxes, TV shows, and social media sites are being inundated with advertising telling us why we should vote for...
Category: Misc
Forty Years Ago Today…
This may seem like an odd commemoration, but it was forty years ago today that I first used a video recorder. As I recall, Dad rented the VCR from an electronics store called Granada...
Hello? Anybody There…?
I know, I know… I haven’t posted anything on this blog since March. And that’s terrible, especially since I have no intention of shutting this down or anything of the sort. However, a blog...
Happy New Year… 2023!
When I was a child in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the year 2023 seemed so far in the future–a year that might be the setting for a sci-fi show. And yet here...
Happy 2022!
Happy New Year to you, my blog readers! Yes, I decided the blog needs a change of design so I picked a new template, created a new banner, and here we are all sparkly...
The Twelve Days of Covid
I was inspired to write the following parody by a Tweet from Darrell Harrison, responding to the news that the definition of “fully vaccinated” was changing to THREE vaccine shots: And now with news...
Return to Twitter
Back in January of this year (2021), I announced my departure from Twitter. Here’s that article: https://www.colindsmith.com/blog/2021/01/29/confession/. This means I have spent most of this year with just Gab and YouTube (and, perhaps, this...
Ten Years Old!
This month, my blog celebrated its tenth birthday–June 17th to be precise. Yes, it would have been good if I had noted this on the day, but what can I say? I missed it....
A Quick Reminder…
If you’ve ever read something on this blog and thought, “I quite enjoyed that. In fact, if I ever met Colin, I’d buy him a coffee, or a beer, to say thanks!” Well… you...
Confession
It has come to my attention that something I have done might shock or offend some of you. Indeed, if you are in the literary world, especially if you are a literary agent, these...
