Jan to June 2016 – Bruce Blumer

Behold

I have the spiritual gift of skepticism. Now it’s not all bad. It served me well as a middle school principal. When […]

Stories of people who overcome great obstacles are engaging and inspirational. I’ve read Nick Vujicic’s book Unstoppable, about how a man with […]

A couple eons ago, I was a middle school science teacher. The high school science teacher at the school is a birder […]

Our mother, Evelyn Roepke Blumer, is the product of a two-story, stucco farmhouse near a wandering creek and nestled between fields of […]

My father, Boyd Blumer, started from humble beginnings. The farm where he grew up was modest, farming less than one section of […]

When our son was almost two years old, we were camping and he spent the day picking up rocks. He picked up […]

My granddaughter wanted me to pick her up from daycare, so we arranged it with her parents that I would get her […]

One of my favorite things to do as a kid was go roller skating. They would open the school gym and you’d […]

When I was middle school age, I decided that I would learn to speak Russian. I thought their symbols were intriguing and […]

A number of years ago I began listening to sermons. Frankly, it began because of a pastor who was a poor preacher […]