Frogs are fascinating creatures. They come equipped with an amazingly accurate tongue that can snag all manner of flying food. However, there is a problem. If there is no flying food they will starve to death. We can put all kinds of nutritious morsels in...
The first time I ever drove a hybrid car I sat behind the wheel trying to start the engine. I pressed almost every button I could find thinking something was wrong. Finally, I put my foot on the pedal and the car moved. What a...
One of the problems with teaching my Human Development classes is I start seeing things in people around me. For example, one of my lectures is on Freud's stages of development. He maintained if one does not satisfy each stage as we grow, we develop...
You should not see my car right now. It is supposed to be shiny maroon but instead it is a dull gray. There are no shiny spots because all is crusted with winter salt. When I sit in it I think I can actually hear...
While waiting for a slice of pizza to cool down enough so as to not sear my mouth and make my tongue feel like fuzz for the next week, I said to my wife, "I like lukewarm pizza, not hot pizza--sort of how I like...
I'm fascinated with our obsession with winners. During the Olympics we watch people who have trained for years, honed their skills to the finest and yet because they finish one thousandth of a second behind the bronze medalist we don't even hear their names. They...
Who can resist a good sale, especially when it is something we use? There it was a forty-pound bag of birdseed chock-full of sunflower seeds and other goodies. Best of all it was half what I usually pay. I was one happy camper until our...
Many years ago one of my African students failed to turn in an assignment. When I asked him about it, he said, “It was God’s will.” “How is that?” I asked. He responded, “If God wanted me to do it He would have gotten me...
While going through old papers, one of our friends in California came across a forty-seven-year-old newspaper from Andrews University. Thoughtfully she mailed it to me thinking I might be interested since my picture was on the front page. I doubt if anyone in my present...
Unlike our 50.6 degree evening right now, on one 15.2 degree evening this last weekend my lab and I were out enjoying the crispest and clearest of winter nights. The sky was so deeply black I am sure one could have seen a 7th magnitude...