2020

Early, early this morning, when I first began my work, I opened my email. Among many other things was a message from one of my sisters. She sent her love, and a link to a YouTube video — a musical performance of one of our old favorite groups. The song, The Hammond Song, was the […]

The Earth’s landmasses have largely been explored. There are a handful of locations that remain “untouched” by human experience. These would include places like Pitcairn Island, which is located 3,300 miles from New Zealand. No plane or helicopter has ever landed there, and it takes about a 32-hour yacht ride to get there from Auckland.

Think of the things we don’t know. Just yesterday, on this blue ball, there were 7.8 billion people, all leading their individual lives, some of them intertwining — but for the most part, singular and known only to that person. Times 7.8 billion. The things we don’t know. This happened yesterday too. And the day

It’s not that I don’t like Christmas. Let’s set the record straight. I like Christmas. I think it is a fine holiday, in its purest form, as Jesus was a kind and loving man. He was accepting and all-inclusive. He gave freely to others, cared for the sick, welcomed strangers, and helped those in need.

Whenever I use the word stellar, I rarely think about the stars. I seem to plop the word in a sentence when I’m talking about something exceptionally good or outstanding. Such is the case when I speak of Annie Jump Cannon, who, coincidentally, is the person that created our current methods of stellar classifications. I’ve

It used to be a lot easier to get away with murder. And not that long ago, either. In fact, someone had to be pretty darn careless not to go undetected. There weren’t cameras everywhere. No one had phones in their pockets. We didn’t have a network of computers connecting the world in seconds flat.

Charles Elwood Yeager just died, as we’ve seen in the news. Chuck. He was here for 97 years, having been born on February 13, 1923. In a little town called Myrna, West Virginia. His mom was named Susie Mae Sizemore, his dad was Albert Hal Yeager, and they started out as farmers. West Virginia farmers.

A couple of stories from the headlines caught my eye yesterday from opposite ends of the world. But before I get to those, I have to say that I am glad to be boring, boring, me. First of all, I’m an introvert, and I like to do things I can do on my own, and