by Morning Reflections | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThroughout the second half of the 20th century, Arthur Burns was a familiar face in the nation’s capital.He served as an economic counselor to four presidents – Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan – and...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereSometimes, life turns on a watershed moment. There is everything that happens before that moment and everything that happens after.And what constitutes that watershed moment? It might be the worst thing...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereEvery set of Russian nesting dolls has an inside story.A matryoshka (the Russian word for “little mother,” pronounced Mah-TROESH- Kah) is a doll within a doll within a doll, each of them exquisitely...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereLooking for true stories of shootouts and showdowns, when six-guns at high noon served as arbiters of frontier justice?Your search will inevitably lead you to Deadwood, South Dakota, one of the roughest...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIn his book The Origin of Names, Words, and Everything in Between, Patrick Foote explores what he calls “historic titles.”Those would be descriptive names bestowed on certain individuals because of heroism...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWhen French general Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought along with his troops a crack team of 167 scientists and scholars.Napoleon was determined to plunder Egypt of its artistic...
