Spoken Blessings
Did you know air passes through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes? Something else also happens when we sneeze. We often get …
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Beginning a Family
A mother sea horse lays her eggs but then it is the father sea horse that carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch. For some ladies who have …
Read More A Girl Named Diet Coke
Can you believe anyone would actually name their daughter “diet coke?” A couple in Yorkshire England did. But the Coke’s probably weren’t doing it to be cute, since little “Diet” …
Read More “Are we there yet?”
According to a recent USA Today snapshot, 80% of parents surveyed say their children ask “Are we there yet?” or something similar when taking a road trip. 19% of them …
Read More Children as Teachers
As my family and I travel doing seminars we often have the same conversation each night, just with different people. Since we have eight children, the oldest being 12 years …
Read More Maple Syrup
Do you like real maple syrup? Not the flavored corn syrup we call maple syrup, but real syrup that comes from maple trees in Vermont? That delicious real maple syrup …
Read More Floor Coverings
On December 15, 2003 route 11 in Bloomsburg, PA was closed for nearly 6 hours after a tractor-trailer jackknifed, spilling its cargo onto the highway. The clean-up took six hours …
Read More Juvenile Delinquent Elephants
A few years ago, South Africa’s Pilanesberg Wildlife Park was having a problem with juvenile delinquents killing their rhinos and harassing tourists. But they weren’t ordinary juveniles. They were young …
Read More Mother of Nine
A mother of nine children wrote: “If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, I am a housekeeper, not a homemaker. If I only …
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