The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate (Continue Reading)
Happy Hobo
I’m just a poor wayfarin’ stranger …
USS Henderson, DD-785
08/30/2024 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentI reported aboard the Henderson 21 Jan 1978 and was transferred back to ASW Training Center 29 Oct 1979. In 1979, we went to Acapulco. (Continue Reading)
AI = Artificial Idiocy
07/08/2024 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentFacebook’s recent triumph: www.mewe.com/wesgroleau is a better alternative. MeWe doesn’t do many of the things I hate about Facebook, some of which Facebook falsely claims (Continue Reading)
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Stupidity?
05/02/2023 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentThe Good, the Bad, and the Funny The recently hyped “AI” chats at best can only provide info synthesized from the documents fed into them. (Continue Reading)
Monopoly vs. Real Life
03/07/2023 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentIn Monopoly, you start out with $1500, and each time around, payday is $200. Everyone is economically equal. And no one ever gets a raise (Continue Reading)
Cartagena vs. Cartagena
02/23/2023 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentStory came on the Food Channel about Cartagena, Colombia (CO), and I thought it would be interesting to compare it to Cartagena, Spain (ES). Cost (Continue Reading)
Adoption from Both Sides
02/22/2023 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentThe word “υἱοθεσία” (huiothesia), is adoption five times in many English versions of the New Testament: Rom 8:15; Rom 8:23; Rom 9:4; Gal 4:5; Eph (Continue Reading)
Shaddai
02/21/2023 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentI’m finding it tricky to fully understand שַׁדַּי, shaday. Since I know very little about Hebrew, I looked for contexts where it is used. But (Continue Reading)
Kids Learning Calculus
11/23/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentΑllegation on Quora: “While China is teaching their kids quantum physics and calculus, our country is teaching our kids about gender pronouns and how to (Continue Reading)
Faith
11/08/2022 W. Wesley Groleau 1 CommentI dreamed about a major natural disaster and about a major military invasion. In both dreams, there were people who immediately despaired and others who (Continue Reading)
Who’s in charge?
11/07/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentWe in USA¹ should be grateful for and support our rights: to vote, to say what we believe, to assemble (peaceably), and more. But that’s (Continue Reading)
Cost of Living
11/04/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentConsidering a move to or within Spain (or anywhere)? If you go to this page, you can adjust lifestyle factors, enter the name of a (Continue Reading)
What if …?
10/21/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Add Comment“If a man or woman … in violation … has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly.”Deut. 17:2-4 What if we (Continue Reading)
Very fast—and very expensive
06/15/2022 W. Wesley Groleau 1 CommentBuild an airtight cylinder about eight meters diameter, 25 meters long. This will hold nine rows of three seats each. As shown in the cross-section (Continue Reading)
Santiago Pilgrims
03/02/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentIn 2018, the Roman Catholic “Oficina de Acogida al Peregrino” issued completion certificates to over 327 thousand pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Newer records (Continue Reading)
Helping Ukraine
03/02/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentWhen trying to help financially with a need, it’s a challenge to know whether a group is really helping or taking advantage of our generosity (Continue Reading)
Brave? Or stupid?
12/02/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentWhat is the gutsiest thing you ever did in your life? Why did you do it?(Father’s Legacy, p. 115) I think most, if not all, (Continue Reading)
Freedom
09/21/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentWe hear a lot about freedom these days. But what does freedom mean to me? What I’d like to have: Freedom from anger and hatred. (Continue Reading)
Persecution? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
08/24/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Add CommentI’m always very skeptical about the accuracy of anything I read these days. But it’s telling that people on both sides have similar stories about (Continue Reading)