Remember the movie? During the night, a storm knocked out the electricity, so the alarm clock was unreliable. From 2005-2009, my family and I lived on Chicago’s North Shore – just a couple of blocks from the house where all…

Shawn Ryan is my neighbor. I see him with some regularity when I’m near the lake, but I’ve only introduced myself once, as he’s always with his family – and I don’t wish to be “that” neighbor. If you don’t…

It first aired on December 9, 1965, as the Peanuts came to life on national television. Wondrously, Charles Schulz determined that our friend Charlie Brown would tee up the question which would send “good tidings of great joy” into family…

Greetings from Plymouth, Massachusetts! We are here enjoying family and friends – and we’re most grateful for the goodness of God. Before our nation’s Civil War battlefields ran red to end the blight of slavery, and before our Founding Fathers…

Anybody in the mood for a sunset lunch? I don’t mean to depress you but, during the month of November, the United States loses two to three minutes of daylight each and every day. Perhaps the longer periods of darkness…

From the mayor-elect of New York, Zohran Mamdani: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” It’s a compelling promise, but “no problem too…

So we gained an hour, huh? Anybody falling (pun fully intended) for that one again this year? Dodinsky wrote: “I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to…

The ballroom addition to the White House is a perfect illustration. If you like President Trump, then he’s building a beautiful structure which will be enjoyed by future generations. If you don’t like President Trump, then he’s destroying a beautiful…

A guard for the Miami Dolphins for fourteen seasons, Bob Kuechenberg was once asked by a reporter why he had gone to college when most of his family had not.Mr. Kuechenberg’s answer was: “My father and my uncle were human…

God calls us to do the right thing – no matter the consequences. It was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Before the Civil War, Congress enacted a law which demanded that all citizens return slaves who were fleeing from…