I was looking out the window of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA this noon peering across a street at Worcester’s Korean War Memorial when a car pulled up to the curb. A sixtyish looking man got out, went around to the passenger’s door and...
Do you ever feel like someone has hacked into your brain and is stealing information? Names of people you really do know cannot be recalled. Yesterday I couldn’t remember my social security number. I had to look it up. Someone asked me for my telephone...
At least ten times this week I have heard the expression “Take it to the next level.” It’s the current way to say, “Up your game.” It’s a call to excellence. It inspires us to not be satisfied with present attainments, no matter how good,...
I recently received an email from a reader complimenting me on the almost perfect grammar and punctuation in these devotionals day after day. I was appreciative but could not take credit. I have to acknowledge my wife’s careful proofing and two well used style manuals...
The stage was set for a wonderful moment; an empty high school parking lot, a helmeted little boy, an anxious father and a tiny bicycle with no training wheels. With just a few running steps dad let go and a life milestone was passed. The...
Knowing why we are here, not as a race but as a unique person, is without a doubt one of the most complex and disturbing questions we ponder. Each of us is so very unique. We are the complicated product of a baby born with...
Most little (sometimes not so little) boys dream of being a super hero. I cannot speak about what little girls dream. Doing deeds of daring, bringing justice, \ righting wrongs, bringing super powers to earthly needs fill many minds with desire. James, John, Matthew, Peter...
It is still April. The buds on the trees have not yet burst. There are just a few daffodils popped up here and there. So you can imagine my unfettered delight to hear the sounds of “Turkey in the Straw” floating up the street. Could...
We came out of a store today and I had to look for my car’s emblem to be sure I was getting in the right car. That would never have occurred fifty years ago when a Ford was a Ford, a Chevy a Chevy and...
NASA is planning an Asteroid Redirect Mission. In 2020 we will send an unmanned craft to rendezvous with an asteroid. The craft will harvest a boulder from the surface of the asteroid and then hover a short distance away. The combined mass of the boulder...