Salvation

Almost Saved

We like to hedge our bets. The concept behind that is to get the best return for our ...

Almonds and Gold

Everyone can draw a flower. Put a circle in the middle, and attach five round ...

The Behold Factor

Blending into the background isn’t possible for some of us. We’re going to shine with flash and bling no matter how hard we try ...

Getting the Goods We Deserve

We all feel we’re special inside. Yeah, all of us. Given the choice between two pieces of pie, we’ll always choose the bigger piece. In cars, we’ll pick the one with the higher sticker price, ...

Working to Get Ahead

Laziness does no one any good. Imagine having a new fence delivered to our yard, and there it sits, neatly stacked in back of the house, just waiting to be installed. We’ve paid for it, it’s of ...

Putting Money on It

When we buy a house, one of the first steps is showing the seller that we are serious. We give them a check called earnest money. The term means exactly what it says, that we are in earnest about ...

The Death Walk

Let’s ask the question: How can a living, breathing person also be ...

A year-long feast seems like a magical offering. A friend is getting married, and he invites everyone to Hawaii for a year, with feasting every day. Or, we win an around-the-world cruise opportunity. ...

Winning the Nobel

One of the greatest prizes in the world is the Nobel Peace Prize. No one can ask to be nominated, and not just anyone can propose a candidate for this prestigious prize. We have to be invited into ...

The Steam Cycle

We no longer have to wash our clothes. Okay, that’s a little extreme, because we do have to wash them sometimes, but the newest laundry machines have a luxury feature called the steam cycle. It ...

Cookie Crunch

Just try to fill a cookie jar with small children in the house. Well, maybe we can fill it, but to keep it filled? Those little round morsels will disappear like a snow cone on a hot summer ...

Our Dusty Beginnings

We’ve all seen the images of the dustbowl, that drying, dissected expanse of heartland that broke so many farmers in the first half of the 20th century. The rains didn’t come, inadequate farming ...

Killing the Golden Goose

Jack is the eternal dreamer. Whatever comes his way, he grabs at. In the land of fairy tales, one day he climbs a giant beanstalk, and there, in spite of impossible odds, he finds the golden goose ...