John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States. He was the son of Abigal and signer of the  Declaration of Independence John Adams. He was an adamant worker to abolish slavery in the U...  Read More

I heard a 911 operator describing a call that she got one night. It was from a man who was calling from a closed  auto shop. He said that he had come into the shop through a window and was rummaging a...  Read More

I went to the movies the other day and saw a pretty good one. But the thing that really excited me was one of  the previews before the film. The screen went dark and the foreboding music from 50 years...  Read More

I loved hearing the story of the first time I traveled back to Texas to see my Grandmother Pettit. I was the first  of her three grandchildren and on that trip, we arrived after dark and the porch lig...  Read More

Jesus told a story about a Jewish man who was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. At that time that 20 mile  journey that dropped 3600 feet in elevation was called “the Bloody Way”. There were so man...  Read More

It was the summer of 1859 that Charles Blondin became famous. He was a tightrope walker who walked on a  rope stretched across the Niagara Falls. He was 160 feet above the falls and walked back and fo...  Read More