World War II had been over for more than six months and my dad was back in his hometown of Dallas, Texas. He and his date were walking on a sidewalk downtown one afternoon just looking in store window...  Read More

At the Naval Academy in Annapolis each year the upper classmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving the courtyard. A visitor was watching all these freshmen on their hands and kne...  Read More

I love the story about the two guys who loved and lived baseball. One day Ted said to his buddy Ned… “Listen, we really want to know if there is baseball in heaven. So, the first one of us who dies, d...  Read More

I love the story of the little girl who was walking home from school, and she saw a bright, but torn piece of paper fluttering in the gutter. As kids will do, she reaches down and picks up the paper a...  Read More

Do you remember the man who saved the world one day? His name was Vasily Arkhipov. It was October of 1962. The Soviet Union was transporting missiles with nuclear warheads to Cuba where they could rea...  Read More

It seems like I end up writing a lot these days. Right now, I have this devotional, a church-wide mailer, a funeral service and a message for Sunday all needing to be finished on my computer. There ar...  Read More