We no longer have to wash our clothes.
Okay, that’s a little extreme, because we do have to wash them sometimes, but the newest laundry machines have a luxury feature called the steam cycle. It ...
Read more: The Steam Cycle
In the fall, farmers begin to look to their fields with a different eye. All summer they’ve worked to keep their crops healthy. They’ve fertilized, tilled, and weeded. They’ve given ...
Read more: Our AMBER God
Everyone loves a campfire ghost story. The flames jump, and the shadows seem alive. We have the companionship of our friends and family to reassure us that it is only a story, and the fear that ...
Read more: Bump in the Night
Jack is the eternal dreamer. Whatever comes his way, he grabs at. In the land of fairy tales, one day he climbs a giant beanstalk, and there, in spite of impossible odds, he finds the golden goose ...
Read more: Killing the Golden Goose
There is not much that looks cuter than a helpless newborn kitten. It hobbles around, shaky on its weak legs, meowing plaintively, and we want to pick it up and cuddle it in our ...
Read more: The Kitten’s Cry
When we look at the flowers and trees and grasses that surround us, it is easy to see what’s above the ground and to pay no attention to what’s underneath the surface of the ...
Read more: Our Roots Matter
In a game of cards, two of a kind means to hold two cards of the same rank. That’s not a bad thing to have.
However, not all two-of-a-kinds are equal. If we have two threes, our cards are easily ...
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What’s ours is ours, and what’s not is not.
Ho, that’s no mystery. Rather, it seems obvious. However, how many of us have looked at a 60” television with envy and gone home with plans ...
Read more: Keeping Our Hand Out of the Till
The very idea of a pointing finger is offensive to many of us. It stands as an accusation of anger, an indicator of intimidation, or even a slap in the face, suggesting that we are inferior to the ...
Read more: God’s Pointing Finger
One of the first signs that the ravages of summer have come to an end are the changing colors in the trees. The tips of the leaves begin to take on the slightest tints of red and orange, and we feel ...
Read more: Our GOLDEN God
When we become entrapped in the legal system, the person who comes to our aid is a lawyer. This is a person specially trained to advise us on how to dance through all the legal footwork our judicial ...
Read more: A Lawyer’s Lawyer
Some advertising logos have become iconic. No matter where we are in the world or in what media we see that familiar shape, we know the product.
And chances are, we trust it simply because it is so ...