In the past 24 hours, I’ve learned of the deaths of two friends. One, Susan Ridley, went to church with us and was active in our...

Uncle Dillon had bought my brother Dale and me a set of toy tractor-trailer trucks and an assortment of accessories. Each of us had his...

Here it is the first day of the last month of the year. Amid all the increasing hustle and bustle that leads to and accompanies the...

Some classrooms will probably have one or two students who could become stars, but our teaching must not be toward them; rather, if...

But before we hastily condemn those nine ungrateful former lepers, we should take a good look in the mirror. Don’t we, too, take an awful...

Some events in life seem small at the time but later prove bigger than they at first seemed. On the other hand, some events seem, at the...

But some decisions are really hard. They require more than a cursory thought; they take some close mental weighing of alternatives and...

A lot of people confuse Veterans Day with Memorial Day. Whereas Memorial Day honors those who served in our nation’s military and gave...

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Merely teaching our students to “be good” is not enough; even a “good” student may in reality be very immoral. Rather, we must teach them...

When many people feel the first hints of an oncoming cold or when the flu season looms, they immediately run to their doctor. Others do...

It finally happened. After all these years, I got my first recall notice. It was for my car. I called the dealer to schedule an...

In my last post, I recounted how I got sidetracked while searching for a particular poem, and I ended up sharing some thought-provoking...

Whenever I begin to do online research, such as find a specific detail or statistic, there’s a good chance that I’ll end up being...

At the recent authors forum in which I participated, the moderator asked us several thought-provoking questions. I summarized my...

Last Friday, I participated in an authors forum, or “talk,” during which the moderator asked seven or eight questions of the three of us...

I’m calling today “Sandwich Day.” Not because I’m planning to have a sandwich for lunch or anything like that, but because this post...

Somehow, in our sports- and entertainment-crazed society, a lot of people think only of football (specifically the Army-Navy game) when...

The fact that George was awarded his first patent at the age of 19 should have been an indicator that he would achieve great things. That...

I have been invited to participate in the Author Forum and Book Signing activity during the 2017 Homecoming and Family Weekend, October...