Shadow Dinner

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You clicked on the link that led you here. So, we know you are somewhat interested.
Do you dare find out more?
I will let you know details about how to participate in an upcoming dinner. Obviously, you aren’t committing.  Just getting some information.
This is so much fun!!!
https://oldrotb.wpengine.com/podcast/ShadowDinner.mp3

The above podcast is a really old one. The music is too loud, and my voice has changed in the past 10 years.

Since that event, which was I think my first, I’ve hosted a few of these. This is a great event. Fill in the “interest” box. Please ask if you have questions.

5 wisdom biscuits

Five Wisdom Biscuits

April 22, 2026

tasty, bite-sized, easily digestible bits of insight ✧✧✧1. Humility, Always.✧✧✧ We need to be humble when we are wrong.AndWe need to be humble when we are right. “When I am wrong, makeme willing to change.When I am right, makeme easy to live with.”—John C. Maxwell ✧✧✧2. LOFTY GOALS✧✧✧ A quote by my BFF Larry Keene: “Our standardsare beyond us for

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Annoyance Bingo

April 14, 2026

Annoyance Bingo.Lose your patience. Win big. ✧✧✧ Game play begins Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 12:00am PT — First Prize: $100 ✧✧✧ The Origin of Annoyance Bingo. For years, I’ve asked mourners at funerals to track the least compassionate things said in an attempt to comfort them — and send me the best (and worst) examples. The idea: when someone

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Wastefully

April 9, 2026

  Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong would answer the question “how shall we express love?” with a single word: “Wastefully.”    ✧✧✧   We don’t express love wastefully. A story and then some thinking about why.   ✧✧✧   It’s 2006. I’m in NYC to—among other things—celebrate the fifth birthday of my first niece, Maya.  I wait outside her school

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77% Weekly Newsletter
77% Weekly Newsletter