Our bodies have a way of telling us something’s wrong.
Pain is our friend, although when it washes over us, it’s hard to tell. Still, if we weren’t aware of our physical problems, we’d go on ...
On a sailboat we depend on the wind for our strength. If there is no wind, we have no propulsion. We are, to speak a familiar phrase, dead in the ...
Read more: Turning Into the Wind
An educator in a small town just west of Fort Worth, Texas, had worked hard to improve her family’s fortunes. In 2013, after years of extra university work, she accepted an administrative position ...
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
We don’t always wake up with a smile on our face. Happiness doesn’t always land in our lap. Sometimes our pleasant greeting is a thin crust ready to crack at any time.
There are days when we ...
We feel alone. We live in a world crowded with people, buildings, and events, and yet, sometimes we still feel isolated.
We can be surrounded with family and friends; and we can laugh and look ...
Steve Errey writes in TheChangeBlog.com how his life has taken an unexpected turn the last few years.
Steve considers himself to be what he terms a social butterfly, a person who needs laughter, ...
Aron Ralston, hiker, gained fame he probably wished he could have avoided.
He was in a Utah canyon when he became trapped by a rock. Alone, unable to free himself, he made the fateful decision to ...
Read more: No Stone Too Great
A television travel host stumbled on a Chinese village that was made up entirely of little people. It was a tourist attraction, with scaled-down houses, smaller furniture, and acting stages sized to ...
Read more: Rising in Glory
We don’t like to have bad things come our way, and especially not a second time.
Nearly two decades ago, a family living near Eagle Mountain Lake in North Texas had lightning strike their house. ...
Read more: Casting Off the Bad
Living in a war zone isn’t easy. In America a century and a half ago, much of the country was decimated as the American Civil War ripped holes in the fabric of people’s daily lives. In the early ...
Read more: The War Within
The world is what we see it as. The sun blazes across the morning, and one man sees the opportunity to go fishing, and the other pictures a day spent doing yard work. An apple cake comes out of the ...
Read more: Thinking Happy Thoughts
A British travel show host visited the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. It thrusts upward from an amazing mountain peak that provides panoramic views of the city and its ...
