(This is adapted from the eulogy I gave at my Mom’s funeral in August, 2017 and is offered here as a tribute to a great mom.) So this little poor girl from Elizabethtown, KY, a telephone operator, met this young soldier from California. The story goes that they were at the roller rink in Radcliff …
History is filled with great people doing great things. Think of Winston Churchill uniting and guiding Great Britain through the calamitous times of World War II, or Dr. Jonas Salk innovating the polio vaccine and wiping out a heinous disease, and Martin Luther King, Jr. galvanizing the civil rights movement to bring racial equality to …
I’ll have to say, the last few years have been a bit wild. I started out 2017 with retina surgery, a bizarre procedure, that led to cataract surgery. My mom, who was living with us, got sick. Real sick, and we had the unfortunate opportunity to ride along with her as she declined and finally …
We rode out the storm through the night, our family of five, including our newborn daughter, huddled in the bathroom of our little ranch house. The idea of a hurricane was foreign to us – just a windstorm, right? But as we heard the destruction around us, and as the lights flickered and went out, …
It’s hard to keep a good man down. If any man in history deserved that title of good, it was this one. He did nothing wrong His entire life, only going about doing good. He healed sick people, comforted the downtrodden, fed those who were hungry, crossed societal lines to reach out to the poor …
Jesus was dead. After His famous last words, we are told that “he gave up his ghost” and when the Roman soldiers came to take the bodies (Jesus along with the two thieves) they saw “that he was already dead.” In historical accounts, from Tacitus to Pliny to Josephus, the event is noted, and even …
This week, culminating in the celebration of the Resurrection on Sunday, is the most significant week in the Christian calendar. Different denominations have differing plans for the lead up, a variety of traditions and observances that are indeed the true meaning of what we now culturally call Easter. But no matter the name hanging on …
I find myself in a 2000 square foot box for the last 24 days. With the same person. Oh sure, we can go outside, do different activities apart, try to kill the time. But in the end, I’m stuck in a box with one person. The same person. Every day, every hour, every minute. The …
Before the current pandemonium began, we had the great joy of heading to Florida to see our new grandson. And there’s nothing my wife, Diana, likes more than… staying in hotels! We have learned over the years how to get a nice place for a reasonable price, never cheap hotels (too sketchy) and always with …
I grew up as an Army brat and was always around soldiers and military bases. We played with toy guns and ran around concocting make believe war games using strategies and tactics we got from GI Joe comics. And many times we gathered up our little green Army men and laid out battles on the …
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