Look what I can do!

Look what I can do!

There’s something I’ve noticed in my decades of non-parenting. And it’s been verified time after time by parents and grandparents alike. It’s this: toddlers are little energy packs, never still, always exulting in their next new experience (that is, until they hear...
A road less traveled?

A road less traveled?

If ‘they’ are to be believed, everybody wants to be a millionaire. Lotteries are available at every corner it seems, a way of emptying pockets of ‘disposable’ income. A new, nearby casino reported over 300 million dollars in net profit in a single year, so attempts to...
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...
Just one more chapter, please!

Just one more chapter, please!

We didn’t have a lot in terms of earthly riches, the stock market didn’t know we existed. My parents were never on a black-tie event guest list. Tiffany’s was unknown to us. But one thing was certain, there were books. Lots of books. My mother loved doing her own...
Daniel the Dreamer

Daniel the Dreamer

The Son of Man meets the Ancient of Days A century or so on and Isaiah’s prophecies must have seemed like a distant dream: Jerusalem had been toppled and the people of God are in Babylonian exile. Daniel, at the time of King Belshazzar, has an apocalyptic dream. A...