After every winter comes a spring. It is the natural order of eternity. Crocuses have braved to pierce the brown lawn still decorated with patches of white in places the sun cannot quite reach. Beautiful heralds of daffodils promise green grass will timidly follow. It’s...
A son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea has a $35 million dollar home in Malibu to which he commutes in his $35 million Gulfstream. Recently he has authorized the construction of a $380 million dollar yacht. The average income of the 700,000 citizens of...
It's a pretty hill with horse paddocks and spring flowers blossoming from the fertile Massachusetts soil. One would not think too much about it if it were not for a small stone memorial by the road. One horrible night in 1675 it wasn't so tranquil. ...
Fifty years ago my mother-in-law made the world’s most amazingly scrumptious sweet rolls every Friday afternoon. The weekend house was olfactory heaven. I think my wife thought I was coming to visit her. I will never admit that I didn’t want to miss Friday evenings...
One of the very first stories I ever read was the tale of the lazy grasshopper and the industrious ants. He played all summer and they worked all summer. Eventually winter came and the winds howled and the ants were snug in their home with...
Just in case you thought you could believe everything you research on the Internet, think again. Even my devotionals have now fallen into doubt. Last night I reported that the Derek Redmond event that included his father occurred in 1988 in Seoul. Wrong! It was...
This afternoon I watched a little girl get a stream of dollars from her dad as she was trying to snag a pretty stuffed bear from a machine with one of those descending hooks. After at least ten dollars she victoriously captured her bear most...
In just a few seconds the entire nation of Japan moved eight feet from its former location. It is almost incomprehensible to realize the amount of energy expended in such an event. It doesn’t take a 140 IQ to see the shape of South America...
About a month ago I replaced a wall switch. Last night a circuit breaker kicked off and would not reset. We hired “Sherlock Holmes Electrical Services.” Well, not really by that name. But the solution did require an hour of sleuthing on the part of...
Yesterday, while I was in a middle school, I walked past a table filled with mittens and gloves. I mean filled. There must have been a hundred pairs and then another hundred singles. We are having fifty degree days now in New England so I...