Monday, February 17, 2025

Here’s the Thing: Stress usually has consequences

My previous piece published on Jan. 8 was all about my weight loss journey. Through the six weeks leading up to Jan....

Here’s the Thing: Here’s what I am pondering; aren’t you glad you asked

If I recall correctly – and it is entirely possible that I do not – last year about this time I expressed...

Here’s the Thing: Reflecting on Jimmy Carter’s funeral and John Lennon’s “Imagine”

“Nothing to live or die for/and no religion too” – John Lennon I took the opportunity to watch the...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Consistent Fruit

Holidays are interesting. We see them coming and often give hours of energy, time, eagerness, or frustration in planning...

Here’s the Thing: Ah! The Christmas letter (from twenty years ago)

I began to write post-Christmas letters sometime in the mid-nineties and continued for about ten years. I ran across some recently and...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Standing in the Kingdom

Advent reminds us of God fulfilling His plan to connect with lost mankind. The Old Testament documented multiple promises that a Messiah...

Here’s the Thing: A varmint warning; they aren’t only in movies

This time of year, countless families gather around the television and binge watch favorite Christmas shows. Because of my age, you might...

Here’s the Thing: Principal recommends replacements for missing staff, a short satire

Not so long ago and not very far away in the school community of Corn County, USA, an interim principal was hired....

Here’s the Thing: Life is funny….until it isn’t…so pivot instead of panic

Life is many things – funny, exciting, appreciated, often good, sometimes surprising, patently painful, occasionally confusing, extremely long and extremely short, breakable,...

History of a sensational murder case revisited in the Wells Circuit Court

By BARBARA BARBIERI Author Stephen Terrell retold the tale of the murder of Melvin Wolfe by...