As my son and family were leaving the baggage area at Logan airport they were blocked at the door by a man on his cell phone. Apparently he wasn’t coordinated enough to walk and talk at the same time. Neither did he seem to be...
One of my favorite things about Jesus was the way He touched people prior to healing them. In Mark 1 He touched a leper and then said, “I will. Be clean.” If it had been me it would have been the other way around. We...
So I ask you. How can a man concentrate on his classroom lecture when a pretty lady comes by the door tossing in kisses? This is not the first time this has happened. We teach in the same department and her office is next to...
I bought a new pair of shoes yesterday and put them on this morning for the first time. They were as perfect as only something new can be. As I started down the stairs my dog promptly stepped on one with her 80 pounds and...
My exquisite art teacher reminded me this morning of something so true and very important. When you strike middle C or any other key on a piano all of the other strings on the piano harp vibrate with it. It literally sets the tone. It’s...
One of the treasures I have from my father is an old globe he had in his classroom. It maps wonderfully exotic places like Siam, Rhodesia, Palestine, Gold Coast and Keijo. Holding a globe and turning it this way and that causes one to wonder...
There are stone walls littered through the forests of Massachusetts. Decades ago people actually tried to farm in places that only grow rocks. Each spring before trying to plow they derocked and built these old fences just to put the rocks somewhere useful. There are...
I wonder how many guys have used the line “You complete me”? It really grabs a lady’s attention even if she knows it’s a quote from the film Jerry McGuire. I’ve tried it on my wife with stunning results. What is interesting is the line...
It’s not my age. I have always had difficulty handling strings of numbers that are spoken too rapidly. My definition of “too rapid” are numbers spoken faster than I can write them down. When I was a pilot and needed to talk to air traffic...
There is a story in the news about a man who after accidentally throwing away his wife’s ring went to the city dump and crawled through tons of trash and filth to find it. He found it. My first inclination was to equate this with...