by Morning Reflections | May 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWhat motivates people to work hard and succeed at difficult tasks?In the 1930’s, a psychologist named Karl Duncker devised a famous experiment to try to find out.It’s called the Candle...
by Morning Reflections | May 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereJust outside Kyle Field – Texas A&M University’s football stadium in College Station, TX – stands the bronze statue of a young man named E. King Gill.Gill was sitting in the stands of...
by Morning Reflections | May 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Music was always her refuge, but Ella Fitzgerald never thought she would be a singer until she won an Amateur Night contest at the Apollo Theater in 1934. To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOn Wednesday, November 21, 1934, during one of the...
by Morning Reflections | May 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereTwo days ago, the world lost the man known as “The Mouth of the South” and “Captain Outrageous.”The New York Times obituary for Ted Turner, who died at 87, exceeded 1,000 words – an earnest attempt to...
by Morning Reflections | May 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The signature story of Israel’s history is the Exodus.It’s the account of the arduous trek of hundreds of thousands of freed Hebrew slaves across the brutal wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula. The Promised...
by Morning Reflections | May 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWhen I was 11 years old, I had the good fortune of spending a number of Friday nights at the home of my best friend, Larry.Larry and his family had the good fortune of living right beside an active railroad...
