Someone (I conducted a brief online search to discover who, but I found no definitive answer) once said, “When God closes a door, He...

Often, we cannot truly appreciate someone or what they have experienced or done until we’ve walked the proverbial mile in their shoes. In...

For fifteen years, we had sped past the place just off I-95 in Pooler, Georgia. Every time we had driven to visit my in-laws in Florida...

I was impressed the minute the man got out of his truck. My appreciation for him grew by the minute. When the installer arrived, two...

Sometimes great writers have some interesting advice and insights about the craft of writing (and many other topics). Here are a few...

He was born on this date in 1928, about 11 months before the big crash. Most of his formative, pre-adolescent years were within that...

As we approach the Veterans Day weekend (and the actual date on Sunday, November 11), we owe a great debt of gratitude to everyone who is...

Today, we take a look back at four historic events that occurred on this day, September 14. Copyright (c) 2018, Dennis L. Peterson...

All of us who are old enough to remember the event, remember where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news of the...

This week marks my wife’s third week of school already, not counting the week of in-service training, and the stories she shares when she...

Here are some of his one-liners that are among my personal favorites. They are as true today as they were when he quipped them. “The...

But Dr. Moses Hoge, a contemporary of Jackson, declared, “To attempt to portray the life of Jackson while leaving out the religious...

In our finite sense of time and events, we often lose our sense of perspective. We often mentally compress time and events without...

In lieu of my writing about a single topic for today’s blog, I decided to share a baker’s dozen (i.e., thirteen, for some people who...

Today, I want to focus a little well-deserved attention on another such unsung hero: Dr. William Shippen. Shippen was born in...

Since that year, however, I have included among those whom I honor on Memorial Day one of my own family. My nephew, Captain Justin...