We’ve all seen the cartoon where a comical character meets something that is unexpected and very frightening. The cartoon character’s response? His eyes pop out of his head, his cap pops two feet ...
Read more: A Cartoon Catastrophe
We all love to share our favorites. We recommend the restaurant we visited last night, the movie we saw, even our newest electronic device. “You have to do this, watch this, have this,” we crow. ...
Read more: 5-Star Jam
We’ve all played that carnival game, where the ducks come up, and we shoot them down. One looks pretty much the same as another, unless a prize duck appears. Take it out, and the big prize is ...
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There is the old fable of Androcles and the lion. Androcles removed a thorn from the wounded lion’s foot pad, thereby befriending the lion. Years later, Androcles was forced to fight in the Roman ...
The advent of the pocket computer, otherwise known as a calculator, axed the use of the common slide rule.
In the mid-70s, most companies quit producing the 400-year-old device.
Yet for half a ...
In 2013 a fire whipped through forests in and near Yosemite National Park, consuming 400 square miles. 60 square miles were torched so severely that they became a wasteland.
There was no life left ...
When life feels bitter, and everything around us is dead, is when the snow comes, creating a winter wonderland.
God is in each SNOWFLAKE that falls, and he brings refreshing to our souls.
Let’s ...
January 1 is the traditional day on which Father Time is reborn. The grizzled old man with walking cane and bent back becomes young again, a baby filled with renewed life.
New Year’s Day is a time ...
The classic image of a donkey shows its feet firmly planted in the soil, pulling hard against its lead rope, its strong sense of self-preservation refusing to let it move forward.
However, that same ...
Two cooks can place the same ingredients in identical pots, cook over the same type of heat, and yet produce very different results. One will be a chef’s delight, and the other will be a blight to ...
All of us have a past. For some of us, we feel a wellspring of pride, for there is nothing we can recall that is outside the will of God. However, for others of us, we struggle with overcoming a ...
A rental agreement is just that, an agreement between two parties. Both sides decide what conditions they wish the other to perform, and once they shake on it, it is a done deal.
However, if one of ...
When we abandon something, do we remember it, or do we release it forever? To state the question another way, do thoughts of it remain in our mind, or is it forgotten as if it had never been?
A ...
