Today is National Receptionists Day.  The day was first recognized in 1991 when the National Receptionists Association decided these wonderful people should be recognized.  “What makes them so special?” you ask.  Read a portion of a letter written by Beverly Catalano, a receptionist for a large corporation. “Several years ago, when someone asked what kind… Read More »

4,007,908.  According to figures released from Market Data Retrieval (MDR), this is the number of K-12 teachers in the United States who are teaching 49.5 million students on a daily basis.1  These figures don’t include the number of homeschool teachers who are teaching 3.7 million children2 nor does it include the number of private, charter,… Read More »

We are more than halfway through spring and for those who love fishing, the warmer weather has drawn you to ponds and lakes with the hopes of wetting some worms and making a big catch.  In honor of the fishermen, let’s open a can of worms together. This idiom is only about 73 years old… Read More »

I don’t know if it was just excitement for the Lord’s return, a marketing scam, or a ploy to keep the church riled up by those who were on “eclipse watch” last month but they were left highly disappointed when nothing significant happened.  Prophecy predictors jump at any opportunity to declare an event to be… Read More »

An article on yourdiy.com really caught my attention.  It listed the deadliest animals in each state.  These animals either caused the deaths or were somehow related to the deaths of many individuals.  Would you be surprised to learn that in eight of our 50 states, man’s best friend isn’t?  In AL, AZ, MI, NH, NY,… Read More »

Today sings the praises of an unsung hero that is typically vilified and cast in a demeaning light.  It’s the school cafeteria lunch lady. Think about your typical television depictions.  Hair net.  Overweight.  Large hairy mole on the face.  Teeth missing or in a state of decay.  Scowling.  Slinging scoops of something on those fashionable… Read More »

Today is an interesting National Day Calendar celebration as well as an historical day.  It all began in 1759 and we have the Presbyterians to thank. The orphaned and widowed are an unenviable subculture that have been with us for a very long time.  The Lord first addressed this group in Exodus 22:22 with a simple… Read More »

Imagine going to work today and your boss said, “Effective immediately, wages will be nearly doubled, and the work week shortened.”  Would you be thrilled with the news?  If you weren’t working for that company, do you suppose you would try to get hired at a place like that? This is exactly what happened at… Read More »

Dr. Rick is the fictional self-help coach on the Progressive Insurance commercials who tries to help a group of people avoid “parentamorphosis,” morphing into their parents as they get older.  I can hear his counsel about today’s celebration.  On this day in 1993, the World Wide Web was launched into the public domain. Twenty-one years… Read More »

Originally, it was called the “Automatic Continuous Clothing Closure” and a patent was sought by Elias Howe, Jr. in 1851.  Once the patent was obtained, the inventor did nothing with it.  Then, a similar invention came on the scene courtesy of Whitcomb Judson in 1893 and was called Clasp Locker.  The viability of this product… Read More »