A few days from now, we will celebrate Valentine’s Day. In 2023, Americans spent $25.9 billion on this day alone. In 2024, the total was about $25.8 billion; in 2025, the spending is expected to be a record $27.5 billion. You would think that’s enough celebrating to make everybody in Read more…
The first Noel the angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay; In fields where they lay – RIP! . . . . The unthinkable had happened at my final concert of the year. As I turned the page of sheet music in the middle Read more…
“I’m going to need to refer you to a specialist,” my dentist told me during a routine tooth cleaning. It had been about 18 months since my last dental appointment. When my lower-right teeth started to feel pain after eating, I feared the worst. I must have a cavity, I Read more…
I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my Read more…
.341 is a sensational batting average. Maintain this for your career, and you’d rank within the Top 15 in Major League Baseball history. But apply this same percentage to your accuracy in journalism, and you’d be out of a job faster than you could write a resignation letter. One young Read more…
On March 1, a U.S.-bound cargo ship sailing from Germany sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike the typical cargo ship, the Felicity Ace carried about 4,000 automobiles. The vehicles had been manufactured by Volkswagen Group and some of its sub-brands. What Is True Value? Among the thousands of VW, Audi, Read more…
It was going to be a great day! The suburbs of Chicago, Illinois were having their parades and gatherings to celebrate the fourth of July. People were coming alive again and celebrations were back. Things seemed to be moving in the direction of normality post-pandemic. It was a great day Read more…
Last month I went on my first solo business trip to Washington, D.C. Once we were cleared for takeoff, the airplane’s massive turbine engines propelled it forward until the laws of physics took over. I can still remember the eerie feeling of floating a split second after the plane became Read more…
It doesn’t take a national declaration for us to give thanks. Sometimes it takes a little desperation. In 1620 when the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower at Provincetown in Cape Cod, they were more than 220 miles off course. They had planned to land at the mouth of the Hudson Read more…
A Canadian Press photo showed how one man from Havana, Cuba tried to appease God’s wrath. The man was lying on his back on a dirt road. Attached to his ankle was a chain several feet long. The other end of the chain was wrapped around a rock. The caption Read more…