Pigs get a bad rap!  Think of all the idioms in the English language about pigs.  Not a one of them is very flattering. If you eat too much or too fast, you are told that you eat like a pig. At a buffet, there is the temptation to pig out. The star athlete who… Read More »

Today’s National Day Calendar celebration may be a bit of a bummer.  You might even feel a bit cheated.  This is National Do No Housework Day.  Our ladies are saying, “This is the Lord’s Day, and we weren’t doing housework anyway.”  If it makes you feel better, why not treat it like a federal holiday… Read More »

A TIME magazine article from 1960 foretells some news that is to become reality in less than two years.   If you didn’t know your Bible, this news would probably be disturbing to many.  The article is titled Science: Doomsday in 2026 A.D.  According to this article and Dr. Heinz von Foerster along with Patricia M.… Read More »

Have you seen the meme that features the two crusty old men from the Muppets commenting on the “new generation?”  It says, “How to frighten the new generation:  put them in a room with a rotary phone, an analog watch, and television with no remote.  Then, leave directions on how to use them in cursive.” … Read More »

Have you ever just dropped in on someone unannounced and they acted like they had been expecting you?  Most people don’t care much for unexpected company.  However, there are those select view who it seems must be sitting looking out a window, waiting for someone to drive in and when they do, open arms welcome… Read More »

Frank Sinatra made a 1921 Al Jolson song very popular in the 1940s.  It was called April Showers.  Some of those familiar lyrics are: Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May, So if it’s raining have no regrets, Because it isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining… Read More »

Today is National Reconciliation Day, a day to mend fences and restore relationships.  How ironic that it follows April Fool’s Day, a day when the practical jokes may have gone too far and created some of these relationship fractures.  The irony, though, is much deeper than that. Esther Pauline “Eppie” Lederer was a famous newspaper… Read More »

We live in an era that is both a blessing and a curse.  Information is as close as the click of the mouse and the speed of your DSL connection.  Analyzing and vetting books and authors was easier when their latest tome came out in hardback and new books were published once a year.  With… Read More »

“In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.  (2)  And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the… Read More »

Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, J.F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan had a few things in common.  Obviously, they were all presidents.  But they all have shared the undesirable event of being shot.  Only one survived.  On this day in 1981, President Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr. outside of… Read More »