On the Jewish calendar, Passover begins at sundown.  We start April 13 at midnight whereas the Jews start it at 6:00 p.m.  Trying to reconcile the two calendars can be quite a challenge.  While Gentile Christian Americans may feel that we have no part in this, I would suggest that Passover is even more meaningful… Read More »

If you read this devotional quick enough, you’ll have plenty of time to hop in your car and make the 181-mile drive to Euclid, Ohio.  Why, you ask?  Euclid High School is hosting the Cardinal and Johnny Appleseed Districts Quartet Prelims and Joint Convention of barbershop quartets.  And since this is National Barbershop Quartet Day,… Read More »

It’s that time of year where you do some spring cleaning, purging the closets, basement, and attic of things you’ve cherished for years but are only collecting dust and using up space.  Sentimentality makes you want to keep those things, but you probably have a wife like mine that is saying, “If you haven’t used… Read More »

It takes some guts to be a police officer.  It takes even more if you are going to slap the cuffs on a sitting president, hauling him off to the local precinct for booking.  Such was the case for Washington, D.C. police officer William H. West. City Hall had received many complaints about speeding vehicles… Read More »

Headlines in tomorrow’s 1974 newspapers would be variations of today’s big event:  Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all‑time home run record.  “At 9:10 p.m. on the evening of April 8, 1974, the Atlanta Braves slugger became the career home run king, slamming a 1-0 fastball off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing into the left-center… Read More »

Sioux City, Iowa was the hometown of twin sisters, Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman.  They were born on July 4, 1918.  I’m sure you’ve heard of them.  Both were newspaper columnists and are better known for their pen names:  Ann Landers (Esther) and Dear Abby (Pauline).  At the beginning of their journalistic careers, they… Read More »

If there was an award for the most detested, reviled President of the United States, it would surely go to our 10th President, John Tyler.  Historians seem to agree, putting him in the list with Warren Harding, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan.  Granted, these listings are arbitrary and slanted according to the bias… Read More »

On this day in 1859, a biologist named Charles Darwin submitted the first three chapters of his infamous On The Origin of Species book to his publishers.  The book formed the treatise for evolutionary biology and became the standard for many years. Though brought up with a strict religious background, Darwin began to doubt all… Read More »

In 2007, the American Heart Association established the first Wednesday of April as National Walking Day.  Somewhere between 10 to 18 months, we started our journey walking.  However, the older we get, the less we want to walk and must be encouraged to get in those steps every day. Mayo Clinic offers many reasons why… Read More »

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful sight to look out your window and see horses and riders speeding by with mail delivery?  If we were alive on this day in 1860, we might have caught a glimpse of this as the Pony Express debuted. The idea of this mail delivery system was devised by William H.… Read More »