Yesterday in church, worship began with one of my favorite songs. We sang “This Is My Father’s World”. This song takes me back to the days when I camped at The Conference Grounds near Dunkirk, NY when I was growing up. Although I did not belong to the church that sponsored that camp, I ...

Dr. O’Reilly should have been a member of the NFL instead of the American Dental Association. I was in the first grade and I swear that man played foot ball in my mouth. With cleats, pads and a helmet. Petrified, I tried refusing to go back, but my mother made me get my first cavity ...

Webster’s defines history as “an account of what happened in the life or development of a people, country, or institution, the branch of knowledge that deals systematically with the past.” I believe that is self-explanatory. As such nothing we can do will change what happened. People ...

Well, the dog days of summer have arrived and it is still spring – until Friday. Oy! Since when did the twin tiers of Pennsylvania and New York state become southern Mississippi? I’m usually griping about the intense heat and humidity in mid-August, not mid-June. I’ve just finished ...

My granddaughter was home for a visit a couple weeks ago. When I went over to visit with her, she dropped a bombshell. She is planning to marry next summer. That part I knew. I also knew that she was planning a wedding out of town. What I did not know is that she wants to wear my wedding dress! ...

Last week’s chat about forgetting the keys and the glasses? Fuggedaboudit. This week’s unforgettable subject is even more serious. It’s about names. I used to be good at remembering names — until about the last 40 years or so. A few weeks ago, I was having a lunch meeting with two ...