I continue to be amazed by students. Just when I think I have seen it all, something new occurs. We started our summer graduate program this morning for teachers working on their masters’ degrees. One young lady tried to register for two classes that were...
“Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing.”* If you said it or if I said it, we would be laughed at as being uneducated, ignorant and out of touch with reality. But when someone with Stephen Hawking’s stature...
When one rides through the Green Mountains of Vermont on a mid-summer day the overwhelming thought runs through your mind that it should be illegal for people to be allowed to live here. Gorgeous, well-kept farms and lawns sit atop rolling hills back-dropped with breathtaking...
We don’t stop at yard sales anymore. We used to enjoy rummaging through other’s discards. One never knows when they will find a million dollar Rembrandt for a dollar. But our house is full and at our age there is little point in adding more...
I overheard a man say that Jesus never made any mistakes. He went on to quote Hebrews 4:15 that tells us Jesus never sinned. Apparently this fellow never looked up the definitions of mistakes and sins. There is a huge difference between cutting a board...
In addition to a CAT scan today I also had an echo heart examination. (Researchers are preparing me for experimental treatment beginning in Philadelphia next week. They are eliminating variables in me, their white mouse.) I thoroughly enjoyed the heart examination. I got to watch...
I’m getting a Computerized Tomography, CAT Scan in the morning. This thing takes pictures of everything. When they are finished my insides will be like an open book. My heart, liver, kidneys, etc. will be public. I’ve had a scan before this and remembered Psalm...
The hospital I was in is on a hill. I was on the fifth floor looking out over a still darkened city. Dawn approached and little by little the shapes of church steeples, domed buildings and electronic towers crept out of the night. Suddenly a...
It’s a funny thing about human beings. If we hear one hundred positive compliments and just one negative comment, we will obsess over the one. Tell someone you love them many times but just once say you don’t, it will be almost impossible to convince...
This morning’s Leominster/Fitchburg newspaper just spoiled one of my favorite things. I love to sit outside in the evenings and feel the cool air push away the afternoon shadows as dusk closes another day. Alas, it seems that our mosquitoes are now bearers of more...