History, Real Life, and Faith
What is your reaction when you see an ambulance barreling down the road at you, lights flashing and siren wailing? Does your heart leap into your throat and your blood pressure soar? Do you pull over (like you’re supposed to) to the right and wait until the ambulance passes? Or, do you ignore the excitement and carry on, oblivious to…
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One of my relatives visited Pike Place Market in Seattle recently and took home a memory souvenir. What’s a memory souvenir? Not an actual item, necessarily, but an experience that triggers a pleasant memory. Here’s the nine-second video: She didn’t need to buy anything, she took a picture to remember a fun outing. How it works This video triggered a memory souvenir…
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Rather than a side dish, I’ve taken a family tree to my family’s Thanksgiving celebration–several times. May I suggest you do the same? Even if you are also bringing a pumpkin pie? Thanksgiving and all the holidays traditionally involve bringing family members together. What better time to collect and share data on something we all have in common: our ancestors? Here…
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A Veteran’s Day Primer
How to be free from bitterness, in 4 hard steps.
We’ve been watching and reading the Poldark stories since the first year of our marriage. Living in Ballston Spa, New York, we had only four television stations: the usual three and PBS. On Sunday nights, we turned on Masterpiece Theater for the first time. We watched Alistair Cooke introduce Poldark II and were hooked. Several relationships between the characters puzzled us…
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