Not a Brain Surgeon? Not a Problem!

Not a Brain Surgeon? Not a Problem!

I won’t overly burden you with my current reading, which is a 462-page book on the brain and the importance of interhemispheric information transfer facilitated by the corpus callosum. Plus, you may not have a burning desire to be informed about the brain’s...
Let Freedom Ring!

Let Freedom Ring!

Not all aspects of God’s character shine through us with equal brilliance, but there’s one that seems universally potent – freedom! It’s in evidence from our earliest “I’ll do it myself!”, to a longing for summer holidays away from teachers and school classrooms, to...
More of Him, Less of Me

More of Him, Less of Me

Professors’ teaching styles range from fall-asleep, deathly boring to edge-of-seat riveting (with all variations in between). I once had an evening class – from 7-10 PM! The professor was one of the most gentle, kind, intelligent men one could ever meet....
In Lieu of Flowers…

In Lieu of Flowers…

Of all possible topics to focus on, few are as likely to elicit as wide a range of responses as this: anything death related. On the one hand, there are those who are obsessed with it, wearing jewelry and/or tattoos of skulls, crossbones, skeletons, werewolves,...
“I hate to go and leave this pretty sight …”

“I hate to go and leave this pretty sight …”

So many stories to be told about children’s bedtime routines! The hyper, “I’m not sleepy!” The conk out artist, sound asleep on the way up the stairs, head on one tread, bottom in the air. The FOMO (short for ‘fear of missing out’) toddler, screaming for just a bit...