If I Had My Life To Live Over – Erma Bombeck

Already known for her wit, Erma Bombeck’s career as a humorist really began to take off in the mid-1960s. Entitled “At Wit”, her humor column developed quite a following and gave voice to suburban housewives. In addition to her column, she wrote for magazines such as Good Housekeeping. She also authored several popular books. Beginning […]

Exquisite Flower Photos Gallery – My Photo Galleries Tour Series

My Photo Galleries! Let’s Take a Tour. It’s been quite a while since I posted anything about the 11 photo galleries that reside on this blog. So, I decided to start a tour series to highlight each gallery over the next several weeks. This is the fourth post in the series. The first one was Exquisite Bird […]

The Day I Met Daniel Who Gives Out Bibles

The Day I Met Daniel Who Gives Out Bibles Snopes.com Claim:   Pastor encounters down-at-the-heels traveler who hands out bibles.Status:   True.   ORIGINS:   We first saw this story circulated on the Internet in 2001. Although many copies omit mention of its author, the essay is the work of Richard Ryan, the assistant pastor […]

The $5.37 Order at Taco Bell – a Must Read for Everyone Over 50 and Everyone Who Knows Anyone over 50!

This is one the first of those wacky Taco Bell emails that everybody forwards to all their friends until the whole world has seen them. You may have already had the fun of seeing it, but if not, I think you’ll get several laughs. Enjoy! $5.37 That’s what the kid behind the counter at Taco […]

Nat Geo Extraordinary HD Scenes Video Set to Music – Inspiring!

Nat Geo vs Dick’s Camera My wife, Lynn, and I went to Tanzania on a photo safari in 2010. We saw an amazing variety of animals, plants, and local peoples that changed many of our preconceptions about Africa, preserving the wild and the incredible creative power of God in His design of the planet. For […]

Funny Stories from Here and There – If General Motors Built Cars like Microsoft

Quirky Comparisons Here’s a sort of geeky, funny comparison of cars and computers. If you have one or more of each category you’re likely to be able to relate. Enjoy. Courtesy of  wesleywildman.com Anonymous GM vrs Microsoft At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and […]

Martha Raye an American Heroine and Medal of Freedom Winner

  Intro Some of you out there are too young to have heard of Martha Raye and that’s too bad. Martha had a lot to offer. She entertained on TV and in the movies as a “clean” comedienne with an oversized mouth – literally. But more important than entertaining you and me, she entertained combat […]

The History of “Taps” Bugle Music Narrated by John Wayne

This is a repost featuring the History of “Taps” narrated by John Wayne. Be sure to dwell on the words that are often overlooked when we hear the bugle version. The history of the bugle call “Taps” was recorded by John Wayne and is now available as an audio narration of a mostly static video […]

The Sparrow – a Love Story About Fathers and Sons

What Does a Sparrow Have to do With Fathers and Sons? Well, it’s kind of like the song – The Cat’s in the Cradle.  I like the Johnny Cash version where Johnny made a point in a way that many people were willing to “hear”. It was an audio lesson on how the negative role […]

The Victory of Annie Glenn, Wife of John Glenn. A Remarkable Love Story

 Annie Glenn – What Is So Special About her?  One of the Nicer Stories of This Era   For half a century, the world has applauded John Glenn as a heart-stirring American hero.   He lifted the nation’s spirits when, as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, he was blasted alone into orbit around […]

The Inspirational Saluting Boy on Omaha Beach

  This is a truly inspirational remembrance of the cost of freedom started by a young boy and his father a year before the events you will see in the video that has gone viral worldwide ever since it appeared in July 2014. This is how it all began… an excerpt from Blog Bio Page […]

Where Did O’Hare Airport Get its Name?

 Should O’Hare Airport be Named Butch and Easy Eddie O’Hare Airport? These two stories about the naming of O’Hare Airport illustrate the cost of patriotism and of repentance and the need for both of these qualities in all of us. We are not all pilots or enablers of the likes of Al Capone but we […]

Extreme Paragliding – The World’s Best Jean Baptiste Chandelier

  Paragliding – What is It? Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders. A paraglider is lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing. The wing is comprised of a large number of interconnected baffled cells.  It is […]

The Man Who Stopped the Roman Gladiator Fights – Faith Stories You Won’t Forget Series

  This is the remarkable story of one man, a monk named Telemachus, whose revulsion by the senseless violence of the Roman gladiator fights-to-the-death led to the end of this brutal practice – at the cost of his own life. There are some differences in the details of various versions of the historical writings on […]

Can a Teacher Make a Difference? Ask Steve! Then Ask Me.

  A True Story by Jaye Lewis (used with permission) Courtesy of Inspire21.com Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve was failing. He had been failing since first grade, as he was […]

Hello, My Name is Edith Burns. Do You Believe in Easter?

With a heavy heart he said, “Your lab report came back and it says you have cancer, and Edith, you’re not going to live very long.”

Edith said, “Why Will Phillips, shame on you. Why are you so sad? Do you think God makes mistakes?

Catching up with Eddie Ogan, author of “The Rich Family in Church” – Part 3

In 1979 she found out she had cancer. For the second time. The first time, in 1965, resulted in a hysterectomy. This time Eddie had an inoperable brain tumor.

“I’ll go home, and take care of my kids,” she told the doctor. “If it’s the Lord’s time for me to die, I’ll die. If not, I’ll live.” Two months later, the tumor was gone.

Catching up with Eddie Ogan, author of “The Rich Family in Church” – Part 2 of 3

Part 1
Whatever Happened to the Rich Little Poor Girl?
Catching up with Eddie Ogan, author of “The Rich Family in Church”
by Kimberly Claassen

The Rich Family of Eddie Ogan In Church Part 1 of 3 Parts

This is a repost of one of my favorite stories that appeared on the blog in April 2014. Read it and it will become one of your favorites, too! It is in three parts. Links to all three parts are at the end of this post.  (This story has appeared several times and places on […]

Hungry for Spring? World Famous Keukenhof Gardens Show it Best

What and Where are the Keukenhof Gardens? There is nothing in the world like Spring at the World Famous Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands. Here in the USA, especially the northern parts of the country, it is cold and snowy in February and March. Many of us yearn for the coming of Spring with warming […]

Keep Your Fork – Two True, Very Different Stories!

  Story Number One – The Best is Yet to Come!   Courtesy of Inspire21.com Attributed to Roger William ThomasSubmitted to Ann Landers by Kay in California A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given three months to live. She asked her Pastor to come to her home to discuss her final wishes. […]

The Church Triumphant – by Bill and Gloria Gaither Updated

The Church Triumphant – Then and Now The original performance of this song written and performed by Gloria and Bill Gaither was in the mid 1970s nearly 50 years ago. It has been sung by and at successive groupings of the Gaither music enterprise that spans over a half century and is “alive and well” […]

The Pretty One – Was This a Match Made in Heaven?

Courtesy of Inspire21.com   Inspire21.com is a great source of inspiration in the form of short stories, free ecards and sayings and quotes. All of the material is available for free sharing and its worth your time to check it out! …Dick   By Roger Dean Kiser Our Last Litter This was the last litter […]