It Ain’t Over

You flip a switch and the light comes flooding into the room. Oh, how we take it for granted. It just happens. What nobody seems to remember is that a few short years ago, there was no such thing as electricity. Thomas Edison tried some 10,000 times before his experiment finally worked and the light bulb came to life! His struggles rarely enter our minds as we flip the switch to turn on the light. His persistence is what makes that little tiny illumination in your...

Are You Afraid of Skeletons?

Halloween is here! People will dress up as some character or idea or the figment of someone else’s imagination or even some scary, mutilated, mangled and maimed being in order to celebrate something, but they don’t know what, or to scare the children in the neighborhood and/or the children that still live inside the adult bodies that live in the neighborhood! Parents will take their toddlers to the homes of people that they don’t really like in...

“It takes a long time to get a gate!”

A good friend of mine tells of an older man who lived in a nice house with shutters on either side of the windows and a white fence that surrounded the property. His curvy driveway was bordered by well-manicured grass and shrubs, and at the end of the driveway hung a gate that could be closed electronically at night for security. It could be the picture you would see on a postcard or in a magazine portraying the ‘good life’!
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7th Inning S T R E T C H

The St Louis Cardinals are not going to play in the World Series! They got beaten by the San Francisco Giants. They had a great run and a lot excitement was generated throughout all of the play-off games. What does that have to do with my business? Keep reading!

In baseball in the United States and Canada, the seventh-inning stretch is a long standing tradition that takes place between the top and the bottom of the seventh inning of each game - in...

Facts from the Fog

She barely could get the car pulled to the side of the road as the fog settled over her. No one else could see it, but momma could. She suddenly couldn’t remember which way to turn to get home. She had no idea where she was at that moment or any idea where she lived, so she waited until the fog lifted.

Then, she was all right for a few days. The fog would come unexpectedly and then clear out just as quickly as it had come.

It had been...