Every day or so it seems you read about another statue torn down and more history lost. Winston Churchill wrote, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Why would the Jewish people be the driving force behind preserving Auschwitz and the other WWII Nazi death camps? Simple. Because they do […]
We live in a day of mega churches with thousands of attendees. Joel Osteen, for example meets in a former NBA basketball stadium in Houston with somewhere in the area of 30,000 in attendance per week. Old mainline denominations are going the way of the Dodo bird, but new, hip, seeker friendly churches are […]
Retirement is such a wonderful thing that words cannot even begin to describe it. If you are not yet retired, let me tell you that it is way more awesome than you could possibly ever imagine! It is hard to imagine going from 100% stress to ZERO% stress overnight, but that is what retirement did […]
People randomly go through life having many experiences. Some are burned into our memories forever and others we pass on and soon forget, never to think on them again. There are a lot of firsts in our lives and most of them we remember: Do you remember your first: PET ? DAY OF SCHOOL ? […]
After a recent particularly exasperating conversation with a politically correct, word police, millennial who went into a twenty minute sermon on how jokes are not funny if anyone at all could possibly be offended by them, I did a search on google as follows: “young peple offended by words” and I was blown away to […]
Who hasn’t watched the movie “Tombstone” or a western set in, or at the very least, mentioning Tombstone, Arizona? I can’t wait to visit Tombstone: the town that wouldn’t die. It still has a population of over 1300 people today! It was even the county seat of Cochise County in its heyday. Originally called Goose Flats, […]
I have always been fascinated by the story of Ira Hayes. If my wife would have let me I even wanted to name our firstborn Ira! I love studying the lives of interesting Arizona natives and Ira Hayes is one of my all time favorites. Ever since Johnny Cash sang a ballad about Ira Hayes […]
Often it seems like it doesn’t do any good to do something good and right, or to make a stand against the masses , especially if you are all alone in doing it. After all, what can one solitary person do to effect any real change in the world? There are many examples in history […]
Yes, indeed, there have been locust plagues right here in Arizona! On July 23rd in 1909, armies of grasshoppers/locusts stripped the alfalfa fields right here in Arizona-in Mesa, to be exact! The plague of locusts that God used Moses to send to unbelieving Pharaoh back in Genesis was only unique in that it was sent […]
When it comes to pets most folks probably think of dogs or cats. We have had plenty of both, but the most entertaining pet we have ever had is a blue quaker parrot. Quaker Parrots get their name from the shaking or quaking they do when they are babies. They come in various colors; green, […]