Have the days of etiquette and manners disappeared?  If you’ve gone to a restaurant lately or simply walked in public, chances are good that you’ve wondered the same thing.  Saying “please and thank you,” holding doors open for others, hand-written thank you notes, chewing with your mouth closed and not speaking until ALL the food… Read More »

Let me give you two stories and you tell me which one sounds better. It’s March 23, 2003.  Just over a year and a half prior to this, the events of 9/11 shook our nation and the world.  The war in Iraq was going strong as forces tried to capture Sadaam Hussein.   The 507th Maintenance… Read More »

A number of weeks ago, I heard an advertisement on a radio talk show that encouraged diversifying some of your investments into precious metals, specifically gold but silver, platinum, and palladium were offered as well.  Out of curiosity, I went to the website.  It’s all legit, however, once you visit the site, you are going… Read More »

Genesis 2:7, 21-22 says, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul… Genesis 2:21-25  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs,… Read More »

Fads.  Did you ever get into any when you were a kid?  Maybe you did as an adult.  Perhaps the most prevalent fad in my adult years were the Beanie Babies.  I wasn’t into them, but my mom was into them.  Allegedly, it was for her granddaughters, but she didn’t seem to have any problem… Read More »

How would you like to celebrate two birthdays?  If you are the King or Queen of England, you will, especially if you were born in colder months. The tradition started back in 1748 with King George II.  He was born in November, a month of miserable weather with temps in the high 40s-low 50s and… Read More »

Comic books came on the scene in the early 1900s.  Detective Comics, better known simply as DC Comics, was introduced in 1937.  It wasn’t long before the imaginations of the young reader were swept away with the heroics of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash.  DC boasts about 10,000 characters including villains, humans, aliens,… Read More »

Right there in the middle of our face is our proboscis, beak, bugle, snotter, honker, or schnoz.  Some might call it our sniffer, smeller, or snout.  Label it what you will, we all have one and it’s a blessing from the Lord that we do.  Let’s think about our nose for a moment. Dipping way… Read More »

Can you guess who the highest paid President of the United States was?  Naturally, because we expect wages to increase, we might say Donald Trump since he is the most recent president.  However, he is not the highest paid president.  Just the opposite.  Technically, he is the LOWEST paid president.  Determining the highest paid president… Read More »

Measure once, cut twice.  Measure twice, cut once.  If you were brought up around woodworking or carpentry, this adage saved you many times from wasting material and making faulty cuts.  The job of measuring has been so much easier since an invention that was patented on this day in 1868 – the retractable tape measure.… Read More »