How can we celebrate Christmas this year with the loss of loved ones through death and divorce? How can we celebrate the coming of God to earth with joyous assurance? The answer is found in the True Message of Christmas! Christmas is not getting presents under the tree. Christmas is not getting a school holiday […]

In last month’s article I left you mid-way through Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas which was written by an immigrant from Ireland, John Joseph Linn. The book was published and copyrighted in 1883 and reproduced in 1935. He lists in great detail the soldiers and medical staff of numerous battles. He knew first-hand the […]

Gingerbread Cookies Greetings fellow culinary enthusiasts! This is modified from a very old recipe I learned about on the radio. I wanted to teach my food science students about the power of leavening agents, and this fit that lesson, plus brought in some holiday cheer. The molasses to brown sugar ratio has been altered a […]

This Christmas I’d like to make this column one of positivity and hope. World events as ever challenge us as people, but progress is made through light and love rather then gloom. For me personally like many others, the best Christmas memories come from childhood, a time that fades into the distance with each passing […]

Surely as we approach the end of the year, if ever there is a time to reflect, it would be now. Google “reflection”. There are at least two meanings that occur. The first would be to see a reflection as in a mirror. The second is to think deeply about a subject. Both of those […]