Family
Our Beloved Bogart Crossed the Rainbow Bridge
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh | October 5, 2018
The house seems oppressively quiet and empty without him.
We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood
By Dr. Robert R. Owens | October 3, 2018
Accept the victory and stop fighting a battle that’s already been won
The Copper Scroll Project By Shelley Neese
By Victor Sharpe | October 3, 2018
Victor Sharpe’s book review of:
Disney really needs to think less about writing a liberal agenda into these fairy tales and go back to simply making fairy tales
GARDEN CHORES, NEWTON’S APPLE, MORE
By Wes Porter | October 1, 2018
Toxic pesticides have been found in most of California's illegal pot farms
Our new Time-Share …
By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser | September 30, 2018
Will the Otters remember the sunsets too?
Natto, the stinky, slimy soybean snack (VIDEO)
By American Chemical Society | September 29, 2018
But many people love its earthy, cheesy flavor or eat it for its supposed health benefits
‘Hoppy’ beer without exploding bottles and too much alcohol
By American Chemical Society | September 29, 2018
The process of "dry-hopping" beer creates a tasty beverage without the concern of exploding bottles or excessive alcohol.
Questions Asked: Can Caterpillars Predict Weather?
By Wes Porter | September 29, 2018
North American folklore holds that the larvae of the Isabella Tiger Moth, Pyrrharctia isabella, can do just that
Escaped puppy rings doorbell to get back inside home
By Fox News | September 29, 2018
Raw video: Security camera captures adorable puppy ringing doorbell with his nose to let his owner know he was ready to go back inside the house in Spokane, Washington.
Put Me In, Coach
By Jimmy Reed | September 27, 2018
High school, football
Support Life: Canadian Life Chain on Sept. 30th
By News on the Net | September 24, 2018
One hour committed to prayer and bringing awareness
A wearable device for regrowing hair
By American Chemical Society | September 24, 2018
Treating shaved mice with flexible vertical LEDs (f-VLEDs) regrows hair faster than no treatment (Con) or minoxidil injections (MNX).
The Yellow Birch of Quebec
By Wes Porter | September 22, 2018
"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among pines."
WWII Vet Remembers Bob Hope
By Lloyd Marcus | September 17, 2018
The good that Bob Hope and Shirley Temple did lives far beyond their years
You Ain’t Fishing If You Ain’t Fishing Cane
By Jimmy Reed | September 17, 2018
I loved that fly rod. It was a work of art, fashioned from split bamboo cane
The Fathers of the Tulip Business
By Wes Porter | September 15, 2018
"A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different from a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different."
DNA-based method detects trace amounts of peanut in foods
By American Chemical Society | September 10, 2018
A sensitive new test can detect trace amounts of peanuts' DNA in food
French Class As the Perfect Way to Teach Everything
By Bruce Deitrick Price | September 9, 2018
A lot of modern education is inefficient, except for foreign language courses. There, teachers still proceed in a logical, sequential, and honest way.
The Best of Bulbs
By Wes Porter | September 8, 2018
"If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few."
My Fingers Were Crossed
By Jimmy Reed | September 7, 2018
Mom and Dad seemed satisfied, but God saw what they didn’t: My fingers were crossed.
IKEA Swedens its product line with a Bluetooth speaker
By Jim Bray, CFP Automotive Editor | September 2, 2018
Bottom line: IKEA's ENEBY 30x30 -- While audiophiles will probably find them lacking, more casual listeners, who like speakers that disappear visually while still offering good convenience, reasonable audio quality will find them more than adequate
POST-SUMMER GARDEN CARE & PLANTING
By Wes Porter | September 1, 2018
September may be an important month for gardeners
Questions Asked: US Measurements, Metric, a Botanist
By Wes Porter | August 31, 2018
Pirates can be blamed for the US not using the metric system
$2.3 Million Reasons Bishop Patrick J. McGrath Is Tone Deaf
By Katy Grimes | August 29, 2018
Far too many of the leadership of the Catholic Church appear to be as tone deaf as career politicians and lifelong bureaucrats. As for Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, he appears to have lost his way on many issues
I Knotted Not Nary ’Nother Noose
By Jimmy Reed | August 28, 2018
Mortified, Mama froze; Gloria and Stokely entwined each other, one hissing, one screaming; and His Reverence blurted out an extremely un-ecumenical expletive.
The Iceland Greenhouse
By Wes Porter | August 27, 2018
Garden Progenitor: Where It All Began
By Wes Porter | August 25, 2018
A measure of just how toxic Kevin Spacey has become
Take A Cold Tater And Wait
By Jimmy Reed | August 18, 2018
When waiting can be more accurately described as patience, it is good, which is what Rudyard Kipling meant in his poem entitled “If,” when he said we must “…wait and not be tired by waiting.”