My mother used to tell us kids, “You might not be able to wear the most expensive new clothes, but you can always be neat and clean.”...

Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” They do not have...

“Don’t touch that-!” a mother says to her little toddler son, who is playing with a stick that he found on the ground. “Now don’t play in...

I’m an early riser. I guess it was ingrained in me from my youth. My parents were sticklers for punctuality. They expected my brother and...

I have often felt like that. I’m not famous for anything. I’m not widely known. Even when I go “back home” to the community where I grew...

While searching recently for some tidbit of information needed for a project, I happened across an amazing accomplishment by a player for...

An effective teacher teaches such that the lowest-achiever, the least capable student in the classroom, can understand. If the lowest...

As the typical story line goes, the person dropped out of school (whether high school or college) early for a variety of reasons: to...

[Excerpt from Teacher: Teaching and Being Taught, pp. 193-94, available at https://www.amazon.com/Teacher-Teaching-Taught-Christian-Educa...

I recently ran across two articles written by Joanna and Chip Gaines, and they made me think. Whenever I watched an episode of their...

(Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries, p. 24) #Confederacy #Militaryhistory #Confederatecabinet #CivilWar #WarBetweentheStates

For quite some time now, I’ve been researching my uncle’s World War II military service experiences. One of the most interesting findings...

As soon as it was light enough and we had eaten breakfast (a cathead biscuit filled with a scrambled egg and a sausage patty or a couple...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character certainly would notice such things. I, too, noticed them when I was growing up. I noticed...

Sometimes in studying a disgusting subject one unearths a rare gem of positive good. As maligned as the Nazi regime is (and deservedly...

More than two weeks (actually 18 days) have passed since my last blog post. I took a little hiatus from blogging so my wife and I could...

I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have been faithful readers (and even a few followers) of this blog during the...

Snarled in stop-and-go holiday shopping traffic the other day, I complained aloud the oft-repeated refrain, “This traffic is moving along...

By nature, I’m an impatient person. (I know that some of you who know me think that I’m calm and laid-back and that nothing disturbs me,...

I hate to be idle. Even when I’m not doing anything, I like to be busy. A relaxed busy, but busy and productive. So whenever I have to...