The picture worth a thousand words

The picture worth a thousand words

The goal was to memorize the 18 geometry theorems. At first daunting, but once the teacher had shown how they were derived and how to use them, illustrating each on the chalkboard at the front, it became a fun adventure. In a short while, they were all logically...
Old, but always new

Old, but always new

Did you know? In California, it is illegal for women drivers to be wearing their housecoats; there is to be no moth hunting under streetlamps; no wearing of cowboy boots is allowed unless you own cows? And in Texas, if you sit on a sidewalk, you will be fined, or for...
… gonna lay down my burdens…

… gonna lay down my burdens…

Dr. James Dobson was once heard to say: ‘Children are the best receivers of information, and the worst interpreters of information.’ That means that little ones hear well and eagerly, but they have to process the information heard through the lens of their as-yet,...
A Long and Winding Road

A Long and Winding Road

Like a kinked garden hose that allows precious little water through, the zealous Pharisee, Saul, had very little openness to, or esteem for, anyone but his fellow Jews and Judaism, the strict, and strictly, Jewish religion. That is, until his blinding encounter with...