The word loyalty means 1: the state of being loyal; fidelity and 2: faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation. Some stores, airlines, banks and gas companies have what is sometimes called “loyalty cards”. We earn points that when we accumulate enough, it entitles us to free merchandise or trips. Would we be…
It was a very historic day, April 22nd, 1970. After demonstrations in the streets, auditoriums and classrooms that involved over 20 million Americans on topics from clean air and water to endangered species Earth Day was conceptualized. Twenty years later Earth Day became global with Canada becoming one of the 141 countries joining in on…
There was a time when my kids were little and either my wife and I would ask how much they love us. It was so cute as they would spread their arms as wide as they could get them and say, “That much!” And sometimes they would do it without even being asked. How cool…
In some parts of our lives or another fear is something we have all had to deal with. It was the Pulitzer Prize winning American author and humorist Dave Barry who wrote, “All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears–of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the…
Evidence: The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. ~Oxford University Press~ We often hear the word “evidence” as it pertains to news stories, crime investigations and court cases. Even with very advanced forensics and crime labs sometimes a suspect will be acquitted due to “lack…
The inscription in simple letters on the outside of the box translated to English reads “Yehohanan, son of Hagakol”. This stone box called an ossuary is housed in Israel’s National Museum. Despite there being volumes of accounts from historians on Roman crucifixions, this is the lone piece of physical evidence that the Roman form of crucifixion actually took…
As we continue our journey through Lent towards Easter, we stop and pause at what is known as “Palm Sunday”, where Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an unbroken donkey. A website about palm branches mentions in ancient times palm branches represented goodness and well being. This is such a contrast to the Romans who occupied…
Extending over 6,000 kilometers across China, the Great Wall of China was built to protect china from the barbaric enemies of the north. In that era the designers of the wall made it so high it could not be scaled, so long no one could go around it, and so thick you could not go…
Things just do not last forever do they? Our cars wear out, our roofs need replacing, our bodies grow older. Strangely enough, even nuclear waste does not stay hazardous forever,. In this 12 page Greenpeace document it mentions that plutonium will eventually be considered safe in 240.000 years. Until then it has to be isolated…
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