I don’t watch a lot of football, compared with some. And, when I do watch, it’s not to learn lessons; it’s to be entertained. But, on occasion, there are lessons that may be learned, if we’re willing to be taught. And get past the entertainment. NFL football can be brutal. …

“No act of kindness, not matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop (620–564 B.C.), Greek slave and fabulist (writer of “Aesop’s Fables”) I’ve come to believe that the main reason we were put on Earth is to help others. We could have been born in another country. To different parents. …

Realtors are fond of using the expression: ‘Time is of the essence” in characterizing transactions of their clients’ buying and selling real estate. It could also be used to accurately depict what may lie just ahead on the political horizon. The November mid-term elections are just around the corner. If…

The above words were used by famed physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) to describe the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. There were likely few things in life Einstein wanted to understand but didn’t or couldn’t. This may have been one even he had difficulty wrapping his head around. Like some others of…

Particularly in the Old Testament of Holy Writ, monuments, often of stone, were erected by different people to help remind them and others (e.g. their offspring) of a particular event. A battle, a dream, or maybe nothing. The absence of something. The son of king David, Absalom, erected one in…

I recently encountered this post online: Russian state media struggles to convey news of Russia losing ground in Ukraine: 'pray for our… A counteroffensive in Ukraine is leaving Russian state media struggling to respond. Some shows featured the unusual…www.businessinsider.com What I want to comment on is what I perceive to be a distortion. I don’t know if you believe in prayer. If you are like most Americans, you may.

I read various advice columns from time to time. Such as this one: I find them often entertaining and, on occasion, enlightening. Almost all are from the disgruntled. The gruntled? Not so much. The gruntled don’t bother writing. It seems they have better things to do. And what they write…

I recently encountered an amusing poem. It may be familiar to a number of readers, but I do not count myself amongst them. Here it is: “The Dying Fisherman’s Song ’Twas midnight on the ocean, Not a streetcar was in sight, The sun was shining brightly For it had rained all that night…

One of the qualities of the Almighty mere mortals have difficulty wrapping their feeble heads around is the concept of ‘ex nihilo.’ The ability to make something out of nothing is quite beyond our comprehension. We have nothing equivalent, no frame of reference. We are bound by the fetters of…