I was watching TV one night when the commercial for MiO water flavor enhancer (see video here ).  For some reason I saw the commercial di...

    A few years ago a study showed that children who are exposed to dirty environments like barns and hay fields are much less likely to dev...

   I love a good laugh as well as the next guy (often my wife and kids make fun of my laugh when I get going... too loud I guess).  Comedian...

     I always laughed when I watched "The Jetsons" and saw George Jetson go off to work where he did nothing but push buttons al...

     I have been thinking about this a lot this week and then this morning at church as we heard Jesus say, "Go and learn what this m...

   GIVE IT BACK!       This is something heard by parents in their homes or teachers on the playground by children who have been robbed o...

  In the gospel of John (John 11:50) the high priest says of Jesus, "You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die ...

   Pattern matching is an important ability in engineering (or really any job for that matter).  The ability to spot patterns of behavior ca...

    Many of us have probably experienced a family or friend that was in need of a place to stay for a while until things got better or they ...

   Raised as a Lutheran I was brought up learning Luther's Small Catechism in which a common question is raised:  "What does this...

   My father was a wonderful man.  The son of a Lutheran pastor he grew up during the depression in a small town in Illinois.  He entered th...

     You've probably heard the phrase:                     "If you don't stand for something, you will will fall for anythin...

   There's an old Marxist phrase that says:       "The capitalist will sell you the rope you intend to hang him with"     ...