I’ve been catching some interesting videos online lately, and for me that is something. I don’t even like to sit for a movie, but these little videos are short. They are the ones where people are mowing and cleaning up lawns for abandoned properties and people who are not able to take ...

My grandfather, in referring to the weather, used to say, “Red in the morn; sailors take warn. Red at night, sailors’ delight.” I have heard others use terms and phrases like rule of thumb and peeping tom. When I hear these phrases I often wonder where, when and how they originated. ...

It’s graduation week. By Sunday night there will no longer be any high school seniors….they will be graduates of the high school they have attended for the past year. And they will be looking forward to their future. It’s a future that needs them desperately to step into some important ...

Some years ago I was given an insulated travel coffee cup by a firm with which we did business. It was a lovely cup — tall, slender, stainless-steel inside and out, nice rubber grip on the outside. A short time after I acquired the cup, I had an appointment in a town about 40-minutes away. ...

Here’s the hard truth; your past only defines you if you let it. We’ve all got chapters we don’t talk about much. Decisions we’d take back without hesitation. Moments that stick with you longer than they should. That’s part of being human. But where people get it wrong, at least ...

May was always a special time in my boyhood family. Our mother’s birthday was on May 8 and Mother’s Day was a few days away — sometimes on the same day. As kids we couldn’t afford anything remarkable for Mom’s birthday and Mother’s Day, but I remember buying her cards for one day ...