Retired Arkansas judge and civil rights movement veteran Judge Olly Neal tells a heartwarming story on Storycorps about how a high school librarian helped him succeed in life. Listen to Judge Neal’s story Just imagine, we have no idea how much a small, anonymous kindness may impact someone else’s life in a positive way. When [...]
Time travel to Victorian times, subtle humor, a gentle love story, a cat that is crucial to the fate of the universe, an overbearing busybody, homage to a great comic writer with a rowboat trip down the Thames, a search through time for a mysterious object called “the Bishop’s bird stump,” and a happy ending–how [...]
When life throws bad things at you that are beyond your control, how do you reach some kind of acceptance? This is a question I am still pondering regarding my recently diagnosed chronic illness. I found some excellent insight in the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl. All quotations are from the [...]
One of my current frustrations is that my health issues mandate that I follow a low carb diet. This means I must learn to live without any of my favorite foods, including anything made with sugar, flour, grain or starch. I also need to avoid chemicals and processed foods, including most restaurant and packaged foods. [...]
For anybody who needs a lift today, here is an adorable video I found on YouTube, of a pile of kittens riding a Roomba vacuum, edited by another YouTube user to add the accompaniment of a Beethoven symphony. Now if only I had a robotic maid to clean my house for me. Or maybe I [...]
