“He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him in!” ― Edwin Markham A long time ago, in what now seems like a galaxy far, far away, I was black-balled from a clergy association. […]

I recently saw a video of a college classroom.  It captured an embarrassing incident. The professor had a rule that cell phones were to be silenced during class. If a student failed to do this and their phone rang, the call had to be answered with the speaker on so everyone could hear. A girl’s […]

The last time audiences saw the superpowered alien symbiote Venom (Tom Hardy) and his human “host” Eddie Brock (also Hardy) on the big screen, it wasn’t in a “Venom” movie, it was in a mid-credits sequence in 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The scene saw the pair briefly hop universes into the Disney-controlled Marvel Cinematic […]

On a freezing afternoon in 1928, Charles Price was standing on a Chicago platform, waiting to board a commuter train. He noticed 16-year-old Betty Robinson running toward the station. “She’s not going to make it,” he thought. Price got on board and took a seat. A couple of seconds later, Betty got aboard and took […]

When our daughter was a toddler, she loved being read to. We had a nice collection of picture books and enjoyed reading to her. Something we noticed was that Goodnight Moon would make her cry. After a few pages, tears would well up, and soon she’d begin to sob. For a time, we mixed up […]

For years, Paul Harvey presented a radio show called “The Rest of the Story.” He would tell about a true incident, but leave out a key fact, which he reserved for the end and presented as a twist. In 1991, my army unit fought in Desert Storm. When the war was over, we stayed in […]