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My blog reflects a lot of what is either important (Faith and Family) or interesting (Photography and Travel) to me. I'm an optimist at heart with an above average number of years in my rear view mirror. That means a wide scope of mostly good news and inspiring things to view or read and maybe even for you to share.
So, come on along and see what it's all about. Here are the latest 50 posts. There are 425 posts in the archive and new material comes frequently.
Five Lessons About How To Treat People – A Quiz I Failed
It Is Well With My Soul – The Inspiring Story Behind This Revered Hymn
It is Well With My Soul – How I First Heard the History I don’t know Read More
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 Read More
HD Video Tour Budapest, Hungary – Castle Hill with Rick Steves
Tour Budapest in HD Here is an HD video tour of Budapest, Hungary Castle Hill, and Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
Mother – a Tribute
Courtesy of Inspire21.com Your mother dreamed of you from the time she was a little girl cradling Read More
Precious Lord by Thomas A. Dorsey – Birth of a Song
TRUE Story — by Thomas A. Dorsey Courtesy of Inspire21.com Back in 1932, I was 32 years Read More
The 40 Different Kinds of Fruit Tree
How I Found the 40 Different Kinds of Fruit Tree I was amazed to discover this Read More
How Much is a Miracle? – “My brother’s really, really sick… and I want to buy a miracle.”
Author Unknown Tess was a precocious eight year old when she heard her Mom and Dad Read More
Easter Celebration in Triumphant Song
This is an updated version of an earlier post. The triumphant music of the victory of Read More
Hallelujah, Easter Version by Kelley Mooney
Hallelujah, Easter Version by Kelley Mooney – How Did It Come About? This is an updated Read More
I Like Adoption.
Look what I found – a post called I like Adoption. I discovered it on a Read More
John Wooden – Legendary UCLA Coach and Teacher – and Much More
This is a repost of a timeless story about the legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden.It's Read More
Best Day of My Life
What does it take to make the Best Day of My Life? By Lance Wubbels (co-author Read More
Fred Rogers – An American Hero – Part 2
Some time ago I posted about Fred Rogers receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Read More
Mr. Rogers – An American Hero
Fred Rogers, better known to millions of children as Mr. Rogers, is a true American hero. Read More
George Younce – Southern Gospel Music Giant – Heroes of the Faith Series
George Younce George Younce is a hero of Southern Gospel music and one of my Read More
“I didn’t like my father.” Gift – a video short story.
This video poignantly tells the story of a boy who disrespected his father for being unsuccessful Read More
The Book With No Pictures – NY Times Best Seller by B. J. Novak
The Book With No Pictures Watch this creative and wildly appreciated by the children book reading Read More
Ron DiCianni: Painting the Resurrection
This is a marvelous 4+ minute video of a CBN.com/tv interview with world-renown artist Ron DiCianni Read More
Love and Mrs. Leonard – The Power of Seven Words.
What Did Mrs. Leonard Say? I’m not quite sure of the source of this story so Read More
Mama’s Bible – a Clean Joke
Mama’s Boys Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers. One Read More
God’s Wife.
Its cold and snowy across much of the U. S. and its cold even in Central Read More
The Christmas Story -The Story Behind the Movie
My Favorite Christmas Movie – The Christmas Story I watch a lot of movies between Thanksgiving Read More
Jenny and Santa – A Christmas Story from Precious Memories by Lynn Stannard
Jenny and Santa met Face to Face Jenny and Santa met face to face Read More
Grandma and Santa Claus
About Grandma and Santa Claus I don’t like to put things like Grandma and Santa Claus Read More
Christmas Reunion – Do You Believe in Miracles?
Tablecloth-Reunion Christmas Reunion The Christmas Reunion story has been around the internet for several Read More
Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Paintings
Thanksgiving and Norman Rockwell – a Great Combination (Originally posted for Thanksgiving 2013 and Read More
The Bag Lady and Thanksgiving Dinner
I found this story on a Christian message board. I don’t know if it is Read More
Ronald Reagan – A Soldier’s Pledge – Listen, Learn, Remember
A Soldier’s Pledge Soldier’s pledge President Ronald Reagan delivered this highly emotional Soldier’s Pledge speech Read More
What Goes Around Comes Around Comes Around – Yeah Right!
This What Goes Around story is an example of the kind of story that people today Read More
A Glass of Milk Given Away Buys a Lot
This is a TRUE STORY — Author Unknown (The story is essentially true but the details have Read More
Halloween – Part 2 -Comments on History and Wrap Up
My Halloween Comments As a writer looks over Halloween historical facts or what the historical writers Read More
Little Girl’s Prayer Saved a Dying Baby’s Life. You Won’t Believe What She Asked For!
This Little Girl’s Prayer Saved a Dying Baby’s Life. And You Won’t Believe What She Asked Read More
Who Invented Halloween? Part 1- The History
The History of Halloween I have had mixed feelings about blogging about Halloween. In one sense, Read More
“I love you, I wish you enough.”
Mother and Daughter – Last Goodbye “I love you, I wish you enough.” I overheard a Read More
Finishing Strong – A Man Sings to 93 Year Old Dying Wife
What does the term “finishing strong” mean to you? A race? Your education? Your military service? Read More
The Thing I Value Most – What Do You Value Most?
How Do You (and I) Measure Value? This is a story about value. What do we Read More
General Douglas MacArthur’s Credo
General Douglas MacArthur was a controversial military figure. I have looked at some of the accounts Read More
Old Baseball Players Never Die…They Just…What Do They Do?
I originally posted this baseball item a week before news of Yogi Berra’s passing broke. Read More
When You Were a Kid What Did You Do For Fun? 3 Generations
Summertime by Norman Rockwell hospitalitylane.blogspot.com Boy and His Dog by Norman Rockwell found on Revengerocks Read More
Acoustic Curves By Animusic – How Do They Do That?
What is “Acoustic Curves”? Acoustic Curves is one of the early releases of Animusic. It debuted Read More
Pizza -Where Was Its Birthplace?
English: Picture of an authentic Neapolitan Pizza Margherita taken by Valerio Capello on September 6th 2005 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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