My greatest joy in life is to sit down for a half hour and write a story. It could be on any subject, God gifted me with a huge imagination. I know very little about grammar. Anything that I run across usually is interesting to me. I had a banana for breakfast. How do bananas…
Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But the more important date is the battle of Lexington and Concord which was the beginning of the Revolutionary war. Don’t forget this date, midnight, April 19, 1775. 850 British soldiers were approaching Lexington, planning to arrest John Hancock and Samuel…
Jesus tells a story and the first verse gives the moral. We are always to pray and never to lose heart or give up. The story is about a widow that was being wronged in some manner. It doesn’t tell exactly what was happening, let’s suppose somebody was stealing from her. She went to the…
When Ben Franklin was 16 years old he took an apprenticeship with his older brother James. James published one of the first newspapers of the colonies which was called, “The New England Current.” This was in Boston, approximately around the year 1720. They had a handful of writers that submitted stories and articles, and they…
Who was the other president that served two terms that were not consecutive? Upon leaving the White House the first Lady told the head of her staff, “Now Jerry, take good care of everything, don’t throw away any ornaments or dishes, we’re going to be back.” Steve was living the good life. He couldn’t imagine…
Johnny, a 19 year old college boy returned from a walk one day with an abandoned baby raccoon. He didn’t want to turn it back out to die, so they took it to a vet to have it checked out, and they found why his mother abandoned it. The baby raccoon was blind. Johnny named…
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And all went to be taxed, everyone to his own city.” The old familiar story that we marvel at this time of year. When we were children in school and in…
The simple Christmas Story. You have heard it hundreds of times, but it’s new every time you hear it. Seems like every time you read the Bible you see something new. I’m not a scholar, I can simply read. I want to point out that this story actually happened. It is an historical fact. Luke…
We tend to think that the pilgrims were the first settlers in America but that is not the case. A group came over from England and settled in Jamestown, Virginia, 10 years earlier. On April 26, 1607, three ships landed in America. They had sailed from England in December, and carried 100 passengers. They landed…
This is the most amazing story I have ever heard. That a person could live a long life, and come across something that they had never heard of before. Apparently it is true, and it was kept a secret for over 100 years. At least it sounds possible and it’s something to consider. If you…
Today is Wednesday, November 6 [date of submission] and for some reason I am feeling patriotic. Let’s talk about one of our most amazing forefathers. One of the most intriguing men in our nation’s history. He was a newspaper publisher, poet, and inventor. He was a man with many hats. His dad was Josiah Franklin…
Saturday morning we heard some great news and our buttons are popping. Our grandson, an MD in his second year of residency at County Hospital in Milwaukee, spoke at a conference of doctors this week in Chicago. He is going to be an Ophthalmologist. He showed a video of him doing an eye operation. The…
The last of three love stories At my last writing I asked if Brahm’s ever got married and you can guess what the answer is. He was so devoted to his work that he would not have been able to concentrate on a family. Paul talks about this concept in the Bible, but it is…
