The rain poured down in the days just prior to the battle of Waterloo. Napoleon had marched all the way from France to face his enemy, and we can image how tired his men must have been after trekking with heavy canons in the downpour. And since they didn't have paved...
P.S. This is part two to the inspirational story named “Flying Over Mud”.We finally arrived at Vimy Ridge in France, a memorial where Canadians valiantly faced the enemy during World War I. Besides the impressive monument, we were surrounded with fields of grass,...
It's so hard to lose face in front of people! Even more so if they are personal friends or people who have respect for you. All of us however, will sooner or later face such embarrassment, some more than others.In 1945, New Hampshire declared the Old Man of the...
We were prepared. We had looked online and found all the train schedules that went from Schiphol, Netherlands to the coast of Belgium, and now that we were in the Netherland with this information at hand, we approached the TV screen announcing train departures with a...
For Mother's Day this year, we decided to take our mom for a walk down the Niagara River Gorge. It was fun going up and down over the myriads of boulders as we followed the path of the Niagara River, and to my complete delight, the walk offered hundreds of perfect...
We had enjoyed an entire afternoon in the full sun while trekking through hills, rocks and at times very slippery terrain in the Niagara gorge, and once we were back up in civilization, we were completely exhausted. The climb up is always the most tenuous, and once...
What should you do when you are attacked? Verbally or otherwise? Putdowns and ridicule may be far from our minds, but more often than not we have no choice but to face these.Israel, too, experienced such attacks. Take the Amalekites, for example: "The Amalekites came...
