Not all fruit is ready to pick. It takes time for the sweet flavors to develop. Pluck the strawberry too early, and expect it to be bitter. Bananas will be hard and tasteless. Oranges? Yech!
We have ...
On March 22, 2016, Brussels, Belgium, was attacked. Two men were willing to give up their lives, as long as they could take out many more.
Fifteen people died, plus the two bombers. One of these ...
Football teams do one thing better than just about anyone else. They assign positions to players by their abilities. Some people are perfect for blockers. Others kick well. And then there’s the ...
Grandchildren get the best sort of love. While a parent must set the boundaries, and a sibling is often little more than an irritation, a grandparent offers something no one else can: grandparent ...
Tit for tat, also known as quid pro quo, trade-off, barter, or swap, means, simply, to trade one thing for another, usually fairly, but sometimes without knowing exactly what we’ll get in ...
All good stories require three parts:
A good beginning.
A solid middle.
An exciting conclusion.
The best way to start the story is with a good hook. We need to grab our readers’ attention and ...
Escalators are commonplace in shopping venues across America. It’s that staircase thing, a familiar set of steps, except improved. Once we are on board, we can relax and let the stairs do the ...
Marriage is not a fifty-fifty proposition, not if we want it to be successful. If each person gives fifty percent, that adds up to a full one hundred, but it’s also a divorce in the making.
In a ...
We’ve seen in the supermarket tabloids the unusual things celebrities collect. One wild example comes from Jay Leno of The Tonight Show fame, who owns well over 100 exotic and expensive cars, and ...
Lush landscapes are beautiful. Trees, flowering shrubs, and tons of greenery make us feel pampered in luxury.
Yet, the lushness of the landscape does something else. It closes us in, creating a wall ...
In 2016, the Apple company fought for the right to own its product. The FBI tried to force Apple to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone. Both groups were locked in battle, at opposite ends of a polarizing ...
We never want the basement apartment. The very idea of being below ground level gives us a feeling of unease. Give us the penthouse, we cry! We want at the very top!
The truth is, we have to work ...
A person is not a city.
Who would even think that? A person…a city. It takes thousands and thousands of us to make a city.
Anyone knows that.
Yet, Revelation 21:2 says:
“And I saw the holy ...
Not all fruit is ready to pick. It takes time for the sweet flavors to develop. Pluck the strawberry too early, and expect it to be bitter. Bananas will be hard and tasteless. Oranges? Yech!
We have ...
On March 22, 2016, Brussels, Belgium, was attacked. Two men were willing to give up their lives, as long as they could take out many more.
Fifteen people died, plus the two bombers. One of these ...
Football teams do one thing better than just about anyone else. They assign positions to players by their abilities. Some people are perfect for blockers. Others kick well. And then there’s the ...
Grandchildren get the best sort of love. While a parent must set the boundaries, and a sibling is often little more than an irritation, a grandparent offers something no one else can: grandparent ...
Tit for tat, also known as quid pro quo, trade-off, barter, or swap, means, simply, to trade one thing for another, usually fairly, but sometimes without knowing exactly what we’ll get in ...
All good stories require three parts:
A good beginning.
A solid middle.
An exciting conclusion.
The best way to start the story is with a good hook. We need to grab our readers’ attention and ...
Escalators are commonplace in shopping venues across America. It’s that staircase thing, a familiar set of steps, except improved. Once we are on board, we can relax and let the stairs do the ...
