Name the most difficult physical task you can imagine. Lifting a heavy object? Out running an angry bear? Jumping over a wide chasm? How about this one: staying awake when your mind and body want to sleep? You know the feeling. It’s been a long day and you’ve enjoyed a good evening ...

As a twice-married man and a father I have been made fully aware of all my faults. One of those faults is my temper. Over the years I have learned to control that temper … until someone pushes all the right buttons. Back in Sunday school days we had to memorize a Bible verse every week. ...

A friend of mine once described coming home as “touching base.” I always took it to mean recharging. Resetting. Like unplugging the computer to get the thing to work the way you want. I thought of this when writing about the amazing Amelia Oliver, a smart performer who’s gracing the ...

On a quiet evening a short time before my first wife, Cindy, passed away, we engaged in a conversation about the future. We were looking ahead to retirement. Cindy had recently lost her parents. My father had died 20 years earlier. A few months earlier, I purchased larger life insurance ...

I’m going to make a safe assumption: most of the world’s population today cannot remember a time when there were no electronic games. This is based on two facts: (1) the world’s median population is approximately 30.9 years old (meaning half of the world’s population is older than ...

It wasn’t smart to bet against Dorothy S. Miller, my fifth-grade teacher at Washington Grade School in Bloomington, Illinois. She said many memorable things, including one day in civics class: (sic) “It’s the duty of good citizens to read a daily newspaper.” Every day at 8.20 a.m. we ...