Ever heard someone say (maybe you?), “I’m not creative!”? Au contraire! Genesis 1:1 doesn’t record, “In the beginning God loved…” but “In the...
"They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head. They were very shy and terribly hard to catch. The men get most of their animals by sneaking up behind them while they are...
What do these stories have in common? “Rip Van Winkle,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” and “Inception?” Sleep! For some people, however,...
Do you pray before your meals? If you say a version of the familiar, “Thank you, God, for this food and the hands that prepared it,” you may want to add: “Please remove any deadly...
On January 10th of this year, 2022, amidst the Covid-19 surge dominating the news and monopolizing hospital facilities, medical history occurred in Maryland. David Bennett, terminally ill, had his...
Cream pies posed under thick white curls of meringue, arranged to attract the shyest of visitors. Their cousins, plump with fruit, scorned such fussiness and sat content covered with simple strips...
Remember learning basic math? How a “5” in the one’s column had less value than the exact same digit in the “hundreds” column. Why? Place determined value! Numerals...
I owe my name to the U.S. Postal Service.
A month premature at a time that meant a low probability of survival, I spent the first two weeks of life in a hospital incubator. When I was finally...
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is home to a woodworking mystery, still captivating and mystifying engineers, architects, and carpenters with its construction.
The Loretto Chapel was commissioned in 1873...
On January 28, 1986, thousands of teachers in the United States stopped their regular lesson and directed millions of students towards the television screen.
Millions of adults paused their daily...
In the 1980’s, an epidemic terrorized the world.
Scientists and physicians knew little about the disease now known as AIDS or even about the virus which caused it, HIV. In 1985 Mother Teresa,...
