by Morning Reflections | Aug 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Pi is the world’s most famous irrational number.It can also prompt people to do some pretty irrational things.February 6, 1897, was not the brightest hour for my home state of Indiana. That was the day our House of Representatives approved Bill 246, which declared...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
It was a sign of the times. Almost 20 years ago, former Major League Baseball star Dale Murphy – one of the “high integrity” players of the 1980s – urged the creation of a patch that could be worn by participants in the annual Little League World Series....
by Morning Reflections | Aug 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Mary Ann Bird grew up feeling unlovely, unpresentable, unloved. From birth she had been afflicted with a variety of disfiguring features. She recounts her feelings – and the moment in which everything changed – in her book The Whisper Test: I grew up...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have never learned to drive a standard transmission car.Since futurists keep insisting that the age of autonomous (“driverless”) vehicles is just around the corner, the window to address this gap in my life is rapidly closing.My associations with standard...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the Bible’s four biographies of Jesus – the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – exactly one person declines his invitation to “follow me.”What could possibly be so powerful or insidious that it would compel someone to walk away from the chance of a...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
“We have fallen upon evil times, and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents.”Those despairing words weren’t posted for the first time on Facebook last week. Archeologists...
