
Ansell: The real deal
I have a friend named Wes and he’s the real deal. He loves God and He loves people (Mark 12:30 & 31). It does not get any more real than that.

I have a friend named Wes and he’s the real deal. He loves God and He loves people (Mark 12:30 & 31). It does not get any more real than that.

Folks, we hear it all on Facebook: fact, fiction and the plain ridiculous. I don’t participate on Facebook as I find it a place where many people speak their minds without researching facts.

As you know, here at "Beyond Reason", we always tackle the biggest, most important issues of the day. A philosophical conundrum.

There might be times we wonder if God like Elvis has left the building. That’s about what’s going on in Psalm 13.

I expect that a few of The Reporter's readers realized I was gone for two weeks. A simple explanation is that I needed some time to relax and recharge my creative spirit. Whatever that means.

The children’s book "Harriet the Spy" was written the year I was born. We were kindred spirits before I knew how to read.

Rick and I are planning a mountain vacation soon. Every chance we find to get out of the Texas heat, we take it.

I make a lot of jokes here at Beyond Reason. Some are at the expense of the game of pickleball.

America believes in second chances. It’s the land of reinvention.

A French tightrope walker stretched a wire across Niagara Falls back in the 1860’s, he then walked across it and people were in awe. He asked the crowd if they believed he could push a wheelbarrow across the same wire and the crowd shouted, “We believe, we believe!” After he was successful he asked the crowd if they believed he could push a person in the wheelbarrow across the wire and they shouted, “We believe, we believe!” Then he asked for volunteers and the crowd got very quiet.