In the cinematic buddy adventure City Slickers, Billy Crystal plays Mitch Robbins.   Mitch is having a classic mid-life meltdown.   His...

“I did an awesome job.”   That would be a loose translation of what God said when he looked around at the newly created earth.   Or as...

There’s a lot of talking going on out there.   Depending on who’s counting, there appear to be at least 3.1 million active podcasts, and...

If you’re a chess player, you have probably experienced something of the despair depicted in this painting.   The young man on the right...

I am a stark raving fan of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the 1970s British progressive rock group.   Classic rock stars are a disappearing...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was America’s workhorse heavy bomber during World War II.    Before Germany and Japan surrendered, 12,731 of the...

Certain sermons have a way of getting stuck in your head.   My colleague Tim Gardner preached a message almost 30 years ago that I have...

Harry Truman was an “accidental” president of the United States.   Plucked from obscurity to be Franklin D. Roosevelt’s running mate in...

If you’re a fan of rap music, you probably thought last Sunday’s halftime show was the best ever.   If you’re not into rap, you probably...

Can love come into our lives by means of a bottle?   Craig Sullivan, a lonely man in Scotland searching for his soulmate, certainly hoped...

Greatness was on display at last Sunday’s Super Bowl.   The greatest number of viewers ever to watch a TV show on a single network tuned...

In 1983, the Westfield chain of shopping malls in Australia decided to stage an ultramarathon between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne....

Brace yourself for some dreadful news.   If today is an average day, approximately 15,000 children will die somewhere on our planet of...

How long has it been since you’ve played the game So Big?    The key component for this game is a small child – especially a little one...

So, are you ready to slip into the passenger seat of a car that drives itself?   Ready or not, here they come.    Most major car...

Last month the world lost a one-of-a-kind character.   Arthur Blessitt, a self-described hippie minister, died on January 14 at the age...

Thomas Jefferson   During the time John Adams and Thomas Jefferson helped launch America in the 1770s, they became close friends.   But...

In the 1880s, northern Wisconsin was still essentially an unsettled and untamed wilderness.    Teams of lumberjacks worked for years...

206.8 is an oddly specific number.   But that’s the figure that emerged from the research of socio-economist Randall Bell, who diligently...

Here’s a pop music pop quiz:   What’s the most frequently recorded song of all time, now estimated to have been covered by at least 2,200...