Since the most ancient of times salt has been important to the cultures who had it. In fact, there was a time when salt was even used as currency. Where do you think the old saying came from "He's worth his salt."
Salt has been used to preserve, season, and cure illness. Even in our Orthodox…
There is a line in Shakespeare's Hamlet that I have always loved. It comes in Act 1, scene 5: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
It's such a wonderful encounter in the play, and it serves as a wonderful illustration of the necessary humility that we…
Sometimes you have to wonder why we so easily miss it. You know, the obvious stuff that, once we see it, we wonder how we missed it in the first place! That's why I love puzzles like "where's Waldo" because once you see him, you can't "unsee" him. My girls like those puzzles where you…
Yeah, THAT old saying! A quote from Virgil's Aeneid says "the descent to hell is easy." And no one ever expects their good intentions to turn out bad. That's the "law of unintended consequences." It seems we humans are better at coming up with witty quotes than we are at avoiding the mistakes of our…
As a former police officer, I remember well having to memorize the rules of the road so that I could ENFORCE the rules. Of course all these laws were on the books for people's safety, but I can't tell you how tempting it was to reduce that central purpose to the mere enforcing the rules…
I know, I know, I should be more patient, but I confess a deep sense of frustration when I'm trying to explain how to get the wifi to work to someone. It's so simple and yet, they don't get it! Of course, I remind them, it's not that easy explaining it to you when you're…
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OK, so, the store started putting out decorations for Christmas around Halloween! Subtle signs that the gift buying season was approaching and letting us know we better get to it if we were going to get all that cool stuff to give as presents at Christmas. And, as usual, the stories of many who were…