To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here My mom, who stepped into the next world seven years ago at the age of 92, was somewhat eccentric. She had a lifelong love affair with chocolate and All Things Sugary. She appreciated bright colors, goofy little slogans, pictures of cats wearing tuxedos, and anything that happened to depict a moose…. Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When Tua Tagovailoa, quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, crumbled to the ground after a hard tackle in the middle of last Thursday night’s game against the Buffalo Bills, sports fans held their breath. Tua is one of the stars of the National Football League. He’s also one of the good guys… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Jay Leno rose from the obscurity of doing stand-up routines for miniscule audiences to hosting The Tonight Show. As he recounts in his autobiography, Leading with My Chin, he gradually learned the comic profession’s tricks of the trade. One of his early learning experiences happened when he was a guest on… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here His classmates would never have voted him Most Likely to Succeed. He pressed the scales at something like 300 pounds. He was shy and spoke slowly, if he happened to speak at all. His fellow students mocked him in Latin as bos mutus, “the dumb ox.” His mentor Albert (who would… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Does the picture above look like the image of a cold-blooded killer? A number of South Koreans have their suspicions. “Fan death” – the widely-held misconception that running an electric fan in a closed environment can harm or even asphyxiate human beings who are sleeping there – is a fascinating urban… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Years before Stephen King was crowned king of literary horror, Shirley Jackson wrote what many readers consider the scariest tale of all. “The Lottery,” published in The New Yorker in 1948, vaulted the 32-year-old author into the national spotlight, and has since become required reading for generations of high school… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Sports Illustrated is a magazine that is famous for breaking big stories. One of the biggest was a feature that rocked SI’s pages early in April 1985. George Plimpton introduced the world to the most exciting baseball prospect in a generation. He was Hayden Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch, a young man who could throw a… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Do all dogs go to heaven? What we know for sure is that all dogs may go to church in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. That’s where a wood carving artist named Stephen Huneck, after suffering a life-threatening illness in 1998, decided to build the Dog Chapel, a place of worship dedicated to his favorite canines. Carved… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. If your name is Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, you need a good nickname. For most of his life, the tall, thin Wainwright, a career military officer, was called “Skinny.” He liked it. His greatest honor – being named supreme commander of the Allied troops in the Philippines early in 1942 – was also equivalent… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Like most kids, I grew up hearing that Christopher Columbus was the man who bravely stood up to the religious superstitions of the Dark Ages. Ignorant people – deceived by Catholic priests – were certain that the world was flat. If you sailed all the way to the edge of the Earth,… Read more »
