A little more than a hundred years ago, my Opa and Oma chose a spot for their new farm house. Around 1912 they built a new barn and out...

We had to see it happen. The landing of Apollo 11 on the moon. We had been camping in Wisconsin in our little 9 x 9 tent. It was just...

This month marks the 50th Anniversary of the first landing of human beings on the moon. In an era of primitive computers, it was a...

This struggle, between being separate and being united, is constantly going on in our lives.

I was sitting by the glass slider door in our basement where it looks out on a bricked patio, and down to the lake. It was about 7:15...

People enjoy hearing stories because stories take us somewhere. We are experiencing a revival of story telling in our country. You can...

I have been in a cave. Many others have been in this cave before me. Some have stayed there a long time. I have visited them sometimes...

I’m at a place in life, at least temporarily, where I have to let others do all sorts of things for me. The limitations of my heart at...

When things go wrong in a relationship, we feel some pain, even if we deny it out of pride. Our personal web of connections that help...

On 3 July 1973, the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department brought out a stamp commemorating the 1900th anniversary of the death of...

On the afternoon of Good Friday I was scheduled to go in for a heart catheterization, or angiogram. My echocardiogram a couple weeks...

This week many Christians will celebrate Jesus as the humble King who rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on Palm Sunday. Others will read...

This week’s column is going to be very personal. Last Sunday we had a birthday celebration for me. A lot of you reading this were there....

A couple weeks ago I watched as three deer walked across the ice on our lake. There was a path they often take. We’ve seen this every...

I’ve been looking at my overflowing drawer of socks for about a year. It took me that long to finally get rid of some of them. They...

I’ve been playing guitar since about 1969. It was a time when folk music had become popular, led by Pete Seeger and groups like Peter,...

I really like being well informed. I am concerned about public issues and the direction of our society. In fact, I’ve been quite...

Do you ever find it hard to concentrate on what’s important? Lately I’ve noticed I tend to shut my eyes in two of the activities I enjoy....

The heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19) On January 1st the New Horizons spacecraft visited and took pictures of an object...

Each of has just so much time left. That reality has made it popular for some of us to talk about the special things we hope to do or...