These days the phrase “I love you” is being misused. It is used too many times in the place of “I want what I can get from you” and causes all kinds of problems. The confusion is made worse when advertisements tell us what we must buy someone to show we truly love them; movies […]

My wife recently returned from a trip to Xian, China. That is where the famous Terracotta Warriors are located. Life-sized clay statues of soldiers don’t seem like a big deal until you look a little closer. To get an idea of the scale of the project, 720,000 people were forced to build the first Emperor

I went into a busy building early one morning looking for help, but they took my clothes and began to hurt me. Different people came up to me and asked me the same questions I had just answered like an interrogation, as if trying to catch me in a lie. They seemed nice, but I

I grew up in a small town in Tennessee and thought I wanted to be a garbage man. They got to ride around all day on the back of a big garbage truck; dump people’s cans full of trash in the back; and pull the lever that took all that garbage out of sight. Besides

As I get older, I realize I am closer to the end of my life than the beginning. Actually, I am much closer. As a male in the US, my life expectancy is 76 and I am 57 years old. That means I have already lived 3/4ths of my expected life span. I have some