When you’re a kid, and you go to the beach, lifeguards are the mean people who enforce the rules and ruin your fun. Maybe later in life, before you have kids of your own, you think lifeguards are necessary because so many parents are careless and negligent. When you’re the parent, things look different. You…

I suppose you might call it faith if you believe in the sun, even on a cloudy day. We probably all have that kind of faith. There are places where it might cloud over for weeks at a time. It’s easy to get discouraged by the grey sky. Yet, even in cloudy weather, we know…

Where is the evidence?  We are fortunate to live in a country where one must be proven guilty.  The presumption of innocence is central to our legal system.  The lawyers involved in a court case present evidence to support their claims of guilt or innocence for the accused.  A baseless claim will be met with…

Have you seen them?  It only happens once a year, but you have probably noticed.  They walk around with that “black stuff” on their foreheads.  It looks like it is in the shape of a cross.  What’s that about? It is about Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the season of Lent.  The black stuff…

Way back in the day if you made a mistake while typing you pulled out the little bottle of “White Out” and brushed over the typo. Then came the erasing ribbon. Then computers came along and we no longer needed “White Out” or erasing ribbon, we simply hit the delete key. What if we dealt…