1598) “You Mean I Get Two?”
G. K. Chesterton wrote an imaginative poem about a man who wakes up to a day in this world. He is not born into it, so he does…
G. K. Chesterton wrote an imaginative poem about a man who wakes up to a day in this world. He is not born into it, so he does…
Once upon a time there was a single dad named Ernie, who had two kids in elementary school. His ex-wife had abandoned the family, was nowhere to be…
Many people complain that life is just not fair. But actually, when you think about, that's a good thing. The way to begin thinking about…
----------- "We should devote 364 days a year to being thankful and set aside only one day for grumbling and complaining." ------------------------ Fulton Ousler (1893-1952) was a journalist,…
----------------------------------- By Robert Fulghum (1937- ), from his 1991 book "UH-OH!" Fulghum was also the author of the best-selling All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1989).…
From The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, 1952, p. 20-22 (ed.): A man 52 years of age consulted me. He was in great despondency. He said he…
July 4, 1939 Three score and seventeen years ago today, Lou Gehrig delivered the 'Gettysburg Address of Baseball,' perhaps the most famous speech in all the years of the game.…
Auschwitz Concentration Camp ---------------------------- The following three quotes are from Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps. They are quoted by Reeve Robert Brenner in his book The Faith and Doubt…
Temperatures in the upper 70's these last few days have Minnesotans thinking about summer, even though it is still mid-April. The first warm days of Spring have people…
One day, a professor entered the classroom and told his students he had a surprise test for them. They all waited anxiously for the exam to begin. The…