Updated: 04/13/13 - The town of Newton held a ceremony in remembrance of Charles Poland, who risked his life in defense of the children on his bus. Saturday, town officials planted a tree in his honor. Read More
Updated: 03/23/13 - Mary Beth Miller was born in 2005 with a heart defect. Read More
Posted: 02/28/13 - A memorial service for Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the no-nonsense Desert Storm commander famously nicknamed "Stormin' Norman," has begun in the U.S. Military Academy's gothic chapel. Read More
Posted: 02/04/13 - Friends and family gathered to give their farewells to Charles "Chuck" Poland. Read More
Updated: 12/20/12 - At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. Read More
“Teach me to see what I have been given, rather than what I haven’t...”
I was reading the Book of Numbers recently and came across that familiar chant of the Israelites, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water!” In Numbers 21:5, the words were followed by another whine that made me laugh out loud: “And we detest this miserable food!”
I laughed because I complain about the manna in my life, too.
I eat every day, but want the luxury of eating out from time to time.
I have a place to live, but the tile in our 1933-era bathroom is awful.
