Five hundred and seven years ago, on the day we’ve come to know as Halloween, Martin Luther changed the course of history.   The German...

A half-century ago, the Ford Motor Company was embroiled in a national controversy concerning the Pinto, a compact car that sometimes...

For most of my adult life I’ve been a birdwatcher.    Birding, as its practitioners call it, is an interesting hobby. That’s because...

Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947.   It is difficult to comprehend the sheer hatred he had to...

He spent 20 years of his life screaming his head off.   As a drill sergeant, he was (in his own words) “the guy who makes you scrub the...

America lost one of its most gifted writers in 2016 when 70-year-old Pat Conroy died of pancreatic cancer.   Conroy’s fiction (The Prince...

A few years ago John Gilbert died at the age of 25 at his home in Paradise, California.    When he was five years old, John was diagnosed...

As J.K. Rowling was putting the finishing touches on her seven-part Harry Potter series, she received a lot of advice.   Parents,...

“In due time.”   That was one of my dad’s favorite Dad-isms. I have vivid memories of my brothers and I approaching our father after...

Little more than a century ago, the city of Vienna imagined itself the embodiment of modern enlightenment.    Philosophers were...

Pinky : What are we going to do tonight, Brain? Brain :  The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world!   That was...

Eva Hart was just seven years old when she and her parents boarded Titanic.   When the “unsinkable” passenger liner collided with an...

Years ago a workplace research group from California approached some loggers in the Pacific Northwest.   They made what seemed like an...

No hugging. No learning.    That was the unofficial motto of Seinfeld, the sitcom that TV Guide once rated simply as the best television...

Does God seem to have something against Florida this fall?   The Sunshine State had only begun to recover from its encounter with...

During the course of a single year (1905), a young man named Albert Einstein submitted several papers to a German physics journal.   This...

Community sports days in rural India occasionally feature a truly unusual event.   It’s called the slow cycling race.   The goal of the...

Twenty-eight days from now, every American citizen age 18 and older will be free to do what approximately half the world can only dream...

One of Richard Nixon’s most eloquent speeches was one that he never delivered.   For that, we can all be thankful.   On Friday, July 18,...

Over the years I’ve had the privilege of officiating at a number of weddings.   On the whole, those brides and grooms have had very...