There’s a story about a pastor who became annoyed with a particular woman in his congregation.   She claimed to have daily personal...

Dario DeLuca is quite a guy.   The ruggedly handsome 60-year-old hails from Positano, Italy. He’s a neuroscientist who specializes in...

Author Rita Snowden remembers sitting in a café late one afternoon in a small village near Dover, England.   As she was sipping her tea,...

Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, who died last year at age 82, was one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the New...

I love caves.   I was in elementary school when I had my first chance to experience a real limestone cavern. I joined my family on a...

Here's a summary of Janet Daniel's presentation on 1-15-2025, "Finding and Adjusting to a Nursing Home: What I Learned During 6 Years...

On a frigid night in January 1973, Senator John Stennis was mugged in Washington, D.C.   He was accosted by two gun-wielding teenagers...

Music historians call it Stevie Wonder’s “classic period.”   Pop music fans simply call it miraculous.   During a four-year span...

Hope is life’s extraordinary antidote for discouragement.   That doesn’t mean that success always comes easily.   Winston Churchill was...

For generations of toymakers, the Holy Grail was a doll that could talk.   Thomas Edison gave it his best shot. During the late 1800s he...

Schools are constantly changing.   Every few years kids are drawn to new fashions, new pop stars, and new definitions of what is cool....

Journalists are running out of words to describe the cataclysmic wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles and surrounding communities....

What goes into the flavor of a great-tasting tomato?   That question is more complicated than it sounds.   Exquisite tastes are seldom...

Jimmy Carter, whose life will be celebrated today at his funeral at the National Cathedral, has always been an anomaly among U.S....

Of the more than 4,300 episodes featured over the years on Sesame Street, #1839, which aired on Thanksgiving Day 1983, stands alone.  ...

Last year Mary Sue and I did what an average American will do 11.7 times during the course of their life.   We moved.   We left behind...

On April Fool’s Day, 1975, a drunk awoke in a doorway on Commercial Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.   His shirt was splattered...

One year ago today, a 13-year-old kid from Oklahoma did what was widely considered impossible.   He beat Tetris.   “I’m going to pass...

Last fall I broke the rules at the airport.   And I had to pay the price.   Just as I was about to retrieve my carryon suitcase following...

“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself.   “He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he...