Some things are meant to be attached to others. Think of travel trailers. A bumper-pull RV is also known as a tagalong trailer. Without the truck that goes ahead of it, the trailer would go nowhere ...
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The mole rat is a most unusual creature. It lives underground. Its legs are short and thin. A fourth of its muscles are found in its ...
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We are taught that we are what we make of ourselves. We control our own destiny, and if we fail at life, we are the ones at fault. In the same manner of speaking, if we achieve great success, it is ...
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In the early hours of October 25, 2014, a young man, 19, watched the blacktop of Poticaw Bayou Road disappear underneath his headlights near Vancleave, Mississippi. The road stretched before him ...
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Some things we think are inviolate. A hospital ship at sea, one clearly marked as such. Schools filled with children. Churches and their parishioners. A mother holding her ...
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We are a people of excuses. We fall back on them on a daily basis. We get a phone call reminding us of our missed appointment, and we blame our busy schedule; we feel embarrassed at a parent-teacher ...
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Building a house in the mountains can be precarious. We have to consider what’s under our foundation to know whether our home will weather the test of ...
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If we visit Texas for any length of time, we’ll likely be pulling on a pair of Justins. Or Stetsons. Or the iconic Lucchese brand, handmade in a classic ...
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We talk of dogpiles, that fun-loving and raucous juvenile activity where we all choose someone to pile on, catching the unwary victim at the very bottom of the ...
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Sometimes we just figure it out. We get the big picture, and all the nonsense around us begins to make sense. Call it prescience, label it intuition, or say we’ve had an epiphany. It all means the ...
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Ring Around the Rosie is a childhood game that involves a group of children holding hands. In some countries they circle a central figure (the caller) who sings to ...
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For those of us who have had the opportunity to spend time in a third world country, we know how startling the differences can be. There’s even a word for it. Culture shock. The differences between ...
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In 2012, a cruise ship of unimaginable luxury toured the Italian coastline. On the first evening of her sailing, she drew too close to the glittering shoreline and impacted. She filled with water and ...
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Some things are meant to be attached to others. Think of travel trailers. A bumper-pull RV is also known as a tagalong trailer. Without the truck that goes ahead of it, the trailer would go nowhere ...
Read more: Tagalong Christian
The mole rat is a most unusual creature. It lives underground. Its legs are short and thin. A fourth of its muscles are found in its ...
Read more: Blinded by God
We are taught that we are what we make of ourselves. We control our own destiny, and if we fail at life, we are the ones at fault. In the same manner of speaking, if we achieve great success, it is ...
Read more: The Fall of the Great King
In the early hours of October 25, 2014, a young man, 19, watched the blacktop of Poticaw Bayou Road disappear underneath his headlights near Vancleave, Mississippi. The road stretched before him ...
Read more: Head-on Collision
Some things we think are inviolate. A hospital ship at sea, one clearly marked as such. Schools filled with children. Churches and their parishioners. A mother holding her ...
Read more: The Devil’s Ambush
We are a people of excuses. We fall back on them on a daily basis. We get a phone call reminding us of our missed appointment, and we blame our busy schedule; we feel embarrassed at a parent-teacher ...
Read more: No Excuses Allowed
Building a house in the mountains can be precarious. We have to consider what’s under our foundation to know whether our home will weather the test of ...
Read more: Falling Rocks