Life is a gauntlet of rules and regulations we run at our peril. Some of the rules we aren’t even aware of, and we break them just living from day to day. It’s lucky for us they aren’t ...
Read more: Prison Permanently Postponed
To throw out the baby with the bathwater is to throw away what’s good with what is not. It means, simply, to make a clean sweep. Everything goes; nothing stays; we are going to start afresh at any ...
Read more: The Baby’s Bathwater
When we cook, we want the sharpest blade possible. That T-bone steak? The meat has to come off the bone. Ham, no matter how meaty and tender, also has to be carved off the bone. Even vegetables ...
Read more: The Sharp Blade
Words change over time. We have all experienced that, sometimes stumbling over verbal gaffes that we don’t even understand. For example, the word “extension.” A hundred years ago, an extension ...
Read more: Our Extensions
When explorers travel to new lands, the first order of business is to claim that which they’ve discovered. Arrive on an uncharted island? Plant the country’s flag. Be the first to the moon? Out ...
Read more: Placing Our Flag
Summer is our time to be outside. Rain? Go away, the chant goes. Come again some other day. We need the brilliance of the sun for our trips, games, and ...
Read more: Our CLOUDLESS God
When we think of grand and glorious, we picture things that give us a sense of pleasure or awe. A grand sunset, an image of the Grand Canyon, or even the MGM Grand, the largest hotel in the United ...
Read more: Stained Glass Symphony
In Jilin, China, winter temperatures can easily drop below minus 25 Celsius. Yet, fishermen still ply their trade on a daily ...
Read more: Under the Ice
It is in the nature of our world for things to go down. Water flows downhill. Heavier, colder air settles in the lowlands. Drop a hammer? It always lands on our ...
Read more: Lift Up the Lad
