A few days after seeing the properties and speaking with the owner’s son, John, he called me and asked me to come to the Ice Palace for a meeting. As I walked into the ice-rink, he started to ask me questions like: How many kids? How would they get here? Who would be...
It was tucked away in the corner of the top drawer in his dresser. There, mixed in with copies of old utility bills, some newspaper clippings and greeting cards that must have touched his heart, was a small index card file. Not the plastic kind you can find in any...
It wasn’t a lamb and a lion that I saw lying down together by the side of the US 2 near mile marker 78 in Idaho’s panhandle as I was bringing Gay back home after her trip to Portland Oregon to see three of her four children. It was a lion, a rare, almost unheard of,...
When the great explorer Shackleton was on his quest for the South Pole, he was at one time driven back, and was compelled to leave some of his men on Elephant Island, though he promised that he would return for them. But when he endeavored to get back, he found a sea...
"Praise be to the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses." - 1 Kings 8:56On June 16, 1815, Napoleon's army engaged the Prussians at Ligny, Belgium. Led by...
I sat in the restaurant feeling nervous. She sat across from me. I with my long auburn hair, she with her long blond hair. I already knew she and I were the same age. I knew that she had lost her mother same as I had. I didn't know at the time, though we lived 800...
As young people often tend to feel invincible, my daughter would be employed two and three places at a time. Being born flat-footed, her feet didn't always cooperate.In time, x-rays proved her bones had actually moved to where they were laying side by side (instead of...