“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”  Those words rang through the speakers of the ground control center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 13, 1970.  Apollo 13 and her three-man crew were in serious trouble. In an interview decades later, Commander Jim Lovell said the mission was plagued from the very beginning.  Little things… Read More »

On February 7, 2021, I wrote a devotional about Niagara Falls.  Let’s revisit the Falls and discover something about the Falls you may have never heard. The year is 1965.  New Yorkers began to notice that the Falls were seeming less torrential.  Water flow was a bit impeded.  A talus was forming due to rock… Read More »

Today is what’s typically known as “Tax Day,” the day we anxiously anticipate with the excitement of a little child on Christmas Eve.  Okay, not really!  I was just trying to put a pleasant spin on a taxing subject. If it makes you feel any better, Tax Day has been pushed to May 17th by… Read More »

Imagine walking into an emergency room department with a gun shot wound to the jaw.  When asked what happened, you reply, “I was shot by an armadillo!”  That is kind of what happened to a Cass County Texan on July 30, 2015.  A Reuter newsfeed was picked up by many other media outlets.  Here is… Read More »

Some United States cities are known equally well by their nickname as they are for their actual name. The Motor City – Detroit, MI – nicknamed for its automobile manufacturing. The Big Apple – NYC – this early 1920s nickname referenced the big prizes won and the many race tracks that were around New York… Read More »

Today marks a defining part of American history.  It’s the day when the American Civil War began in 1861.  Lasting four years and 27 days, it claimed more lives that all other U.S. wars combined. “The war resulted in at least 1,030,000 casualties (3 percent of the population), including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease,… Read More »

It’s hard to trace the beginnings of a particular genre of music.  It seems that one style morphs over a period of time from another.  Through the years of church music, there has been the joyous singing of four-part harmony featuring a soprano, alto, tenor, and bass line.  This led to Gospel quartets forming, travelling… Read More »

Let’s finish off this week of devotions with one more lesson centered around Apis mellifera, the domesticated western honey bee.  This one will be painful to even consider! If you entered an apiary, you have entered a “bee yard,” a place where bee hives would be kept.  You would probably expect to occasionally see someone… Read More »

The word “buzz” is associated with many things.  It could refer to the feeling you have after too much coffee.  The caffeine makes your brain buzz!  The word might be referring to a frequently used word/phrase or a popular topic of conversation.  It could also describe the talking of a group of people planning an… Read More »

Years ago on the sitcom Full House, D.J. and Stephanie belonged to the Honeybees, a club similar to Girl Scouts minus the vest with pins.  Instead, they wore honeybee outfits.  Those little kids were beeeeeautiful and were buuuuzzzzzzzzing around with all sorts of excitement, happy to beeeeeee a part of this group. I hope you… Read More »