The 2014 Winter Olympics are in the books now. March Madness is almost upon on us! I don’t think that Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, saw it coming. The talk of basketball will dominate our lives for weeks to come. But what an interesting week this was back in 1987 for professional basketball! […]

Little David had hoped that this week would not come in 1984. David was a special child that was born with no immune system. Therefore, he had to spend his entire life in a plastic bubble away from anyone with germs. Any little micro-organism would be deadly. In order to love him, his parents and

Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks! The “Legion of Boom” put on a show of how to play football! Their accomplishments on the field were amazing! Now that the confetti has stopped flying and all the winning players trips to Disney World have been planned, the Denver Broncos have to come to terms with what happened.

The Pro Bowl is done and the big day of the Super Bowl is coming! If you are like, I am looking forward to seeing as many commercials as I do good plays on the field this Sunday. There is just something about all the hype of the game. We seem to not get enough

This week in 1905 at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found. Frederick Wells was 18 feet below the earth’s surface when he spotted a flash of starlight

A few years ago I had knee surgery. The recovery went well. There were still a few tender spots but I came around. In order for me to make progress, I had to be sure that my good leg was leading the way for the damaged one. It’s not that the sore leg didn’t want

The season of college football is now over and basketball is taking center court. For those of us living in the East, football is OK. But when it comes down to basketball, we get dead serious! There is a reason they call it March Madness in spring! Even the famous Harlem Globetrotters started out as

One of the greatest inventors in history did not always get his ideas off the ground. This week in 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine. He probably put a great deal of time and effort in figuring out how to be the first person to soar as birds. But it just wasn’t

One of my pastor friends recently met with me to discuss some ideas on how to go about teaching a humanities class that wrestles how technology affects our society. It will be an interesting topic this fall for both of us. But one of the catchy slogans he said over and over made me think

You may have read that the iconic Twinkies is making a come back later this month. You can now take your valued Twinkies out of storage. Forget about taking it to the Antique Road show in 30 years! It looks like they will be around for years to come. I never really got a craving