Some of you may or may not know my wife and I are adopting a 13-year-old boy from Latvia. We met him through a hosting organization called Project 143. It’s a program where you bring a child from an overseas orphanage to live in your home for a month in the summer and winter, so […]
The Question of a Lifetime; Have you ever read about a Near Death Experience, also known as NDE? It’s when someone dies and goes to Heaven and returns to tell their story. I have always been fascinated with this subject and over the last few years, I have read hundreds of stories online and read
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It’s mid-February, and I’m sure most everyone is sick of winter, but spring will be here before you know it. That makes me wonder how many people know or care about how we get our seasons. This is something that has fascinated me ever since I was a kid. Let’s start with planet Earth and
To many people, the word “introvert” has a stigma attached to it. Some will translate this word to weird, stuck-up, arrogant, depressed, recluse, mad, unhappy, and hermit. But if you say the word extrovert, people think, the life of the party, outgoing, friendly, and happy.Sadly, introverted people like me are misunderstood. I’ve had those stigma type words
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From the day we are born, one thing we will all do is age. With all the inventions of mankind, we have not figured out a way to stop the aging process. Lord knows the money Americans spend each year to try and slow the process down. But no matter what you do, Father Time
If you’re a book reader like myself and have read about what goes on in Third World Countries, you may have come to the same conclusion as I have. We Americans are a spoiled bunch. I recently read a book by war correspondent Kevin Sites. Sites has covered many wars in little countries most people
Like many Americans, I embrace technology. The cell phone and internet are on the top of the list for most people. I have often wondered how I got along without the internet for 35 years before this mysterious thing crept its way through our telephone lines. Nearly everything I buy is now online. Just last
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Last night I was helping my son, Jake, with his homework and came across the word “militia,” although the dictionary says it is pronounced |məˈliSHə|. Really? Then why wouldn’t it be spelled with an SH? That’s my problem with the English language, words like phone, knife, gnat, island, two, colonel, bologna, dossier, reign, know, knot, debris, and