Resilience
"One stroke fells not an oak."George Herbert Seventeenth century English poet George Herbert collected sayings. This one makes me think of several things: Perhaps the…
Model rockets
When I was in middle school, I enjoyed building and launching model rockets. Cardboard body tube, balsa fins, plastic nose cone, parachute--with fine strings and…
Thirty minutes
The difference between being a well-read person--someone who reads a significant number of books in their lifetime--and someone who doesn't is thirty minutes per day.…
One hundred
This is the 100th post. Of course writing 100 posts sounds so intimidating I would never do it. Writing hundreds more sounds impossible--I might never…
Underneath the door
Singer/songwriter Michael Card shares what it was like for him to grow up as the son of a medical doctor. If you have a few…
Try it again
I'm a huge fan of Indian food. It's a part of my heritage--my Dad's folks were missionaries in India. We grew up eating home-cooked rice…
Persistence
I've watched a lot of soccer games. The shots taken to goals scored ratio is very lopsided. Yet, the players, somehow, think it's worth the…
How to eat an elephant
She said, "You don't eat an elephant in a day." My first thought was, "Who eats elephants?" My second thought was--"She's right, of course." Rhonda,…