by Morning Reflections | Jul 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereMark Twain was on top of the world. In 1861 he officially became a riverboat captain on the Mississippi. Piloting a steamboat combined adventure, danger, and the sheer romance of chugging up...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe United States Flag Code can be reduced to a single sentence: You’re doing it wrong.It’s a good bet that most of your fellow citizens, even on America’s 248th birthday, aren’t actually aware that...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThis is that special time of year when monarch butterflies grace our gardens, not to mention the milkweeds growing alongside farmers’ fields.For a long time, these beautiful, fragile creatures were at...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThere are child prodigies. And then there was Blaise Pascal.Born in 1623 in Rouen, France, Pascal was the son of a tax collector. By the time he turned 16, he had written a treatise on projective...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereFor most people, climbing Mt. Everest is a peak experience in more ways than one.Reaching the summit of the 29,032-foot mountain means you can justifiably claim to have stood “on top of the...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOne of the vivid memories I associate with being nine years old is hearing my mom say to me, seemingly out of the blue, “Good news! I’ve signed you up for piano lessons, beginning next week.”I did not in...
