When a child brings you a picture or playdough creation to look at, you tell them how good it is, and you may even put it on a prominent display in your home. Those creations come and go, but not your child because your child is more valuable than anything they create. When I say…

This is Optimus Prime. He is a Transformer. The Transformers are alien robots who disguise themselves on earth as cars or other modes of transportation to hide their identity. Their true form is a robot, but they hide for fear of being misunderstood as enemies and attacked. We often hide things about ourselves from others.…

When you hear the plastic crack as it hits the floor or see the pile of doll hair on the ground, your heart drops. One of the new Christmas presents is broken beyond repair and must be thrown out. Then the tears come as the meaning of loss hits a child, but the tears of…

Every year at this time, Christmas songs like “Jingle Bells” are not being played anymore. We will all have to wait another ten or eleven months until the Christmas songs return. It is sad when the Christmas music ends as the Christmas spirit of peace, hope, joy and love seems to go with it. There…

2023 made it even easier to ask for help with the rise of AI. As if finding help was not easy enough with asking Siri or Alexa or using one or two thumbs to Google something. Now that the world has been so far removed from the exhaustive burden of having to walk or drive…

There are viral videos going around of people holding a blanket, throwing it up in front of them and then disappearing when the blanket falls. The videos have drawn many likes and shares because of the baffled looks of people and even pets when the person behind the blanket disappears. A scenario like this is…

Lots of acorns drop to the ground each year. For lots of kids, acorns are collected as if they were treasure. Some kids might even keep them in their mom’s old wicker basket behind the chicken coop, which is what I did. Other acorns get crushed by feet, hooves or tires. Others are eaten by…

We often think of a man dressed in a red coat and black belt eating cookies during Christmas. But this character does not point to the true Christmas gift. Instead, this time of year, we ought to look forward to hearing from a man described as one who “wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with…

Some of you have been so eager for the Christmas season to begin that you have already had your tree up for a few weeks. Some of you may even have presents under your tree already. The gifts waiting under your tree may be the reason you are so eager for Christmas. It is so…

“I saw you give your sister a slice of pie. I saw you give your brother a glass of eggnog.” Then the family joined together in their tradition to set up their Christmas tree after the Thanksgiving meal. What I just described is a very different scenario than, “I saw you take your sister’s jacket.…