"Jesus Loves Me This I Know...," so goes the song many of us sang as youngsters. But how can we understand how much Jesus loves us? To comprehend, here's a real-life story of love and believing. It was 1961 when Lou Holtz had just married the love of his life, Beth. Lou was a graduate student ...

There’s something about this time of year that feels like it moves faster than it should. The calendar fills up. The weather starts to shift. There are baskets to fill, meals to plan, schedules to coordinate. And before we know it, Easter is here… and gone. But this week—the week leading ...

Four centuries ago William Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This line from Romeo and Juliet is valid for today’s column, even if used out of context. We are largely who we are regardless of our name. I’ve been an Arvid for more than 78 years but if ...

Winter wasn’t done with us yet. After we were teased with some beautiful sunny 60 degree days Mother Nature sent a blizzard our way. The snow fall totals weren’t that substantial but just a few inches of snow combined with sustained winds of 30 miles per hour and gusts in the 50 plus ...

Several years ago a Facebook friend who is a past schoolmate from the mid-1950s sent me some copies of yearbook photos from that era. The photos included one of his class, the class a year behind him and my class, which was two years behind his. The first-grade photo (my class) brought back a ...

For some people, it takes a force of nature to get motivated. For others, like Bob Erickson, it took a force of nature to slow him down. This past week, it apparently was time for Bob to come to a full halt. It was a shock to learn that Bob had died last Saturday. Almost everyone in ...