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TRUE Story — by Thomas A. Dorsey Courtesy of Inspire21.com Back in 1932, I was 32 years Read More

How I Found the 40 Different Kinds of Fruit Tree I was amazed to discover this Read More

Author Unknown Tess was a precocious eight year old when she heard her Mom and Dad Read More

This is an updated version of an earlier post. The triumphant music of the victory of Read More

Hallelujah, Easter Version by Kelley Mooney – How Did It Come About? This is an updated Read More

Look what I found – a post called I like Adoption. I discovered it on a Read More

This is a repost of a timeless story about the legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden.It's Read More

What does it take to make the Best Day of My Life? By Lance Wubbels (co-author Read More

Some time ago I posted about Fred Rogers receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Read More

Fred Rogers, better known to millions of children as Mr. Rogers, is a true American hero. Read More

  George Younce George Younce is a hero of Southern Gospel music and one of my Read More

This video poignantly tells the story of a boy who disrespected his father for being unsuccessful Read More

The Book With No Pictures Watch this creative and wildly appreciated by the children book reading Read More

This is a marvelous 4+ minute video of a CBN.com/tv interview with world-renown artist Ron DiCianni Read More

What Did Mrs. Leonard Say? I’m not quite sure of the source of this story so Read More

Mama’s Boys Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers. One Read More

Its cold and snowy across much of the U. S. and its cold even in Central Read More

My Favorite Christmas Movie – The Christmas Story I watch a lot of movies between Thanksgiving Read More

  Jenny and Santa met Face to Face   Jenny and Santa met face to face Read More

 About Grandma and Santa Claus I don’t like to put things like Grandma and Santa Claus Read More

  Tablecloth-Reunion   Christmas Reunion The Christmas Reunion story has been around the internet for several Read More

    Thanksgiving and Norman Rockwell – a Great Combination (Originally posted for Thanksgiving 2013 and Read More

  I found this story on a Christian message board. I don’t know if it is Read More

  A Soldier’s Pledge Soldier’s pledge President Ronald Reagan delivered this highly emotional Soldier’s Pledge speech Read More

This What Goes Around story is an example of the kind of story that people today Read More

This is a TRUE STORY — Author Unknown (The story is essentially true but the details have Read More

My Halloween Comments As a writer looks over Halloween historical facts or what the historical writers Read More

This Little Girl’s Prayer Saved a Dying Baby’s Life. And You Won’t Believe What She Asked Read More

The History of Halloween I have had mixed feelings about blogging about Halloween. In one sense, Read More

Mother and Daughter – Last Goodbye “I love you, I wish you enough.” I overheard a Read More

What does the term “finishing strong” mean to you? A race? Your education? Your military service? Read More

Five Lessons About How To Treat People – A Quiz I Failed   Courtesy of Inspire21.com Read More

It is Well With My Soul – How I First Heard the History I don’t know Read More

How Do You (and I) Measure Value? This is a story about value. What do we Read More

General Douglas MacArthur was a controversial military figure. I have looked at some of the accounts Read More

  I originally posted this baseball item a week before news of Yogi Berra’s passing broke. Read More

  Summertime by Norman Rockwell hospitalitylane.blogspot.com Boy and His Dog by Norman Rockwell found on Revengerocks Read More

What is “Acoustic Curves”? Acoustic Curves is one of the early releases of Animusic. It debuted Read More

English: Picture of an authentic Neapolitan Pizza Margherita taken by Valerio Capello on September 6th 2005 Read More

Tour Budapest in HD Here is an HD video tour of Budapest, Hungary Castle Hill, and Read More

Already known for her wit, Erma Bombeck’s career as a humorist really began to take off Read More

The Day I Met Daniel Who Gives Out Bibles Snopes.com Claim:   Pastor encounters down-at-the-heels traveler Read More

This is one the first of those wacky Taco Bell emails that everybody forwards to all Read More

Nat Geo vs Dick’s Camera My wife, Lynn, and I went to Tanzania on a photo Read More

Quirky Comparisons Here’s a sort of geeky, funny comparison of cars and computers. If you have Read More

  Intro Some of you out there are too young to have heard of Martha Raye Read More

This is a repost featuring the History of “Taps” narrated by John Wayne. Be sure to Read More

What Does a Sparrow Have to do With Fathers and Sons? Well, it’s kind of like Read More

 Annie Glenn – What Is So Special About her?  One of the Nicer Stories of This Read More