First off before you read the following please know that though I love sports I am not an athlete. I played some baseball as a kid and in high school and only one thing kept me from bein...

For those interested in genealogy there is no greater treasure than to find a cache of letters from the past. Sometimes they have great historical value like ones written back and forth between...

As a kid growing up in our small town there was a tine machine. Yes a real time machine where you could sit with friends and family and go to the past, the future and any part of the world. These...

The Numbers Game When I was teaching in a high school we were expected to attend graduations wearing the gowns we wore for our own college graduation. Teachers sat together as a group and this...

There is a story I have always enjoyed and there have been variations of it. It is one that comes to mind whenever I hear pundits from various fields share their wisdom with us. There was a very...

The following may get me kicked out as a PolitiDude, however with so much in the news about past indiscretions by top Democrats I feel I must be honest as a Republican and come out with the...

It is hard for this writer to believe that there are some people who are Christians who do not believe that we have a responsibility to the animals that we share this world with. There are even...

From author, Dr. Fred Eichelman: As we honored over Memorial and D-Day what we have rightfully labeled “The Greatest Generation” we too often think only of our American heroes. This also applies...

We do not know if the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, was a Christian or not or if he intended for one of the world’s best known fictional characters to have religious beliefs....

As a kid in school back in the forties I would have laughed at anyone suggesting I would ever be a teacher, let alone love school. The loving part was due to a fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Martha...

I approach this article with a bit of apprehension as I have been given two opinions by friends in the medical profession. First, and foremost, this is a story that must be told. Second, to be...

There have been stories of teachers who have become successful performers, however my favorite story is about a performer who not only remains very successful as an actress, but who has become a...

Virginia has a long history in being first in a number of things, however there is something we wish we were not first. We have three Democrats in the top government positions in the state,...

Several years ago I was invited with others to be on a local TV show about hobbies. The sweet interviewer started with me and asked, “And what is it that you do?” Her mouth hit the floor when I...

There would seem today that we have more trashy television than ever before. This comes from one whose teen years were during the golden age of TV when a family could sit around that box in the...

Life is about choices and today we are led to think that is largely about whether to accept socialism or capitalism as a lifestyle when we see so much on TV about the growing divisions in our...

Rhonda Fleming connected me with Pat Boone a few years ago and I have had the pleasure of talking with him several times. Before our first conversation I was warned by an assistant of his th...

I was thirteen years old and in eighth grade. I was a patient in a Maryland children’s hospital, John Hopkins. The hospital was two hundred miles from our home in Virginia, and I had just gone...