I don’t know if you ever watched the early 2000’s TV show, ‘Monk’ starring Tony Shalboub, but I enjoyed the show from time to time.  Shaloub’s character was Adrian Monk, a brilliant former San Francisco detective.  Monk suffered from an…

Before cigarette commercials were banned on American television in 1971, I remember a really attractive cigarette commercial targeting women.  Their slogan was ‘You’ve come a long way, baby!’  The commercial was well done and if you were a woman and…

Many years ago when we were building our home in Massachusetts, we needed to pick out every last thing that would go in and on that house.  Everything from flooring, to countertops, to wood finishes, to hardware for cupboards, to…

“Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.”    – Acts 4.13 Amazed:  astonished; extremely surprised.   I…

In 2025, America will celebrate the 249th birthday of its independence from Great Britain on July 4th, a date also known as Independence Day. This day commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,…