Here's a summary of Janet Daniel's presentation on 1-15-2025, "Finding and Adjusting to a Nursing Home: What I Learned During 6 Years...

On a frigid night in January 1973, Senator John Stennis was mugged in Washington, D.C.   He was accosted by two gun-wielding teenagers...

Music historians call it Stevie Wonder’s “classic period.”   Pop music fans simply call it miraculous.   During a four-year span...

Hope is life’s extraordinary antidote for discouragement.   That doesn’t mean that success always comes easily.   Winston Churchill was...

For generations of toymakers, the Holy Grail was a doll that could talk.   Thomas Edison gave it his best shot. During the late 1800s he...

Schools are constantly changing.   Every few years kids are drawn to new fashions, new pop stars, and new definitions of what is cool....

Journalists are running out of words to describe the cataclysmic wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles and surrounding communities....

What goes into the flavor of a great-tasting tomato?   That question is more complicated than it sounds.   Exquisite tastes are seldom...

Jimmy Carter, whose life will be celebrated today at his funeral at the National Cathedral, has always been an anomaly among U.S....

Of the more than 4,300 episodes featured over the years on Sesame Street, #1839, which aired on Thanksgiving Day 1983, stands alone.  ...

Last year Mary Sue and I did what an average American will do 11.7 times during the course of their life.   We moved.   We left behind...

On April Fool’s Day, 1975, a drunk awoke in a doorway on Commercial Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.   His shirt was splattered...

One year ago today, a 13-year-old kid from Oklahoma did what was widely considered impossible.   He beat Tetris.   “I’m going to pass...

Last fall I broke the rules at the airport.   And I had to pay the price.   Just as I was about to retrieve my carryon suitcase following...

“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself.   “He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he...

There’s something about bad news that grabs our attention.   Consider this headline that appeared around the world six weeks ago:...

There’s only one widely-sung Christmas carol whose verses tell a story.   It’s also the only carol that spotlights a real-life character...

In the Bleak Mid-Winter   Are you searching for a simple, memorable, spiritual resolution for the new year – something calculated to help...

When you think about it, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In is a rather unusual Christmas carol.    There are no boats in the accounts of...

George Frederick Handel was a musical has-been in 1741.   The luster was gone from a once-lauded career as an opera...