In the musical theater hit, My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle sings her frustration to Freddy, the young man smitten with her. Here are some short sections of the very long song to give you the idea: “Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!/I get words all day through;/First from him, now from ...
Last summer, I wrote an article in the Footsteps to Follow section of the Sun-Gazette entitled “Set Free.” As this article coincided with Independence Day, the message was one of freedom — our freedom as Americans and as children of God. Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, went to the ...
Maybe you’ve had a string of them too. You know, a series of things breaking down, falling apart, or just wearing out right before your eyes. That’s how our summer has been so far. It actually started in the spring when we had to replace a major part of the furnace. But we’ve lived in ...
Getting lost is almost always the highlight of any vacation. Oh, the stories you can tell when you get back home of how the GPS took you to a corn field instead of the amusement park! Or the time you got off the wrong exit and ended up in a scary neighborhood with street hoodlums sizing you up ...
(RNS) — In 1775, a year before there was a United States and six weeks after the Continental Army was formed, George Washington made a declaration that has shaped the military ever since. “We need chaplains,” he reportedly remarked, prompting action by the Continental Congress near the ...
This summer I enjoyed a staycation, taking the opportunity, as I walked my dog Truffles, to enjoy greeting my neighbors and investigating my neighborhood. I discovered a tulip tree growing just a quarter block from my back door. I had heard of tulip trees, so when I saw the yellow flowers ...
