It’s well known that the eccentric playwright Oscar Wilde had a pet lobster. While he was a student at Oxford in the 1870s, the Irishman used to tie a string…
We always complain about our lack of time. We have only 24 hours per day, seven days per week, four weeks per month and 12 months to make everything happen.…
Mrs. Cook was her name. She was my creative writing teacher in 12th grade. I remember walking into her classroom on the first day of school. She had a scarf…
I cannot stop thinking about Las Vegas. I worked at WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee, from 1996 to 1998 as a camera and sound operator, during which time I helped bring…
Sometimes we can be too afraid to ask hard questions in regards to our faith. Whether we’re afraid of the answer differing from our current beliefs or intimidated by questions…
There’s a note on my phone that is simply 21 tally marks. Twenty-one laps my sister and I walked around the track at a Relay for Life last year. Twenty-one…
It is instilled deep in our bones from an early age that we need certain material goods to survive and achieve happiness. By the power of societal engineering, human beings step…
I had a conversation recently with a woman in her mid-20s who was excited about the idea of self-driving cars. She couldn’t wait to get one, dreaming of the day…
All my life, I’ve wanted to be a part of a demolition crew. Shows on TV always made it seem so empowering. You knock through drywall with a sledgehammer and…
I had the honor of meeting one of my greatest role models this month. Her name is Katie Davis Majors. She moved to Uganda at age 18 to teach kindergarten…