Honoring A Life Well Lived

This past Sunday, my family and I traveled to Cleveland, Georgia to attend a service that was part anniversary, part recognition and all celebration.  It was a service at Union Grove Congregational Holiness Church to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first sermon preached by a beloved and legendary Georgia mountain preacher, Rev. Asa Dorsey. Now in the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you...

Another Auld Lang Syne

Just for a moment I was back at school And felt that old familiar pain And as I turned to make my way back home The snow turned in to rain… Singer/Songwriter Dan Fogleberg lost his battle with prostate cancer yesterday morning at 6:00 am at his home in Maine, with his wife Jean by his side.  He was only 56 years old.  Fogleberg is best known for a string of megahits in the 70s, 80s and 90s, including...

“Angels We Have Heard on High” On Broccoli… no kidding

I’m not sure if this comes from the “Now I’ve Seen Everything” Department, or from the “This Guy Has WAY Too Much Time On His Hands” Department… or both.  This fellow fashioned an ocarina out of a large stalk of broccoli and then plays “Angels We Have Heard On High” on it.  With a harpsichord accompaniment. Nothing says Christmas like carols played on… um,...

Say It Ain’t So

There is a legendary (and possibly apocryphal) story that is forever a part of baseball lore. Heartbroken fans were told that their heroes, the 1919 Chicago White Sox were crooked.  They allegedly had thrown the World Series and made a huge profit from it.  When the trial of seven indicted players began in June of 1921, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson testified about his role in the “Black Sox”...

10 Child Prodigies Who Actually Ended Up Doing Something

There’s an interesting story on CNN.com from Mental Floss about child prodigies.  Most people who amaze people with their academic or musical skills when the rest of us are just learning to wear big boy pants never amount to much.  Maybe it is the pressure to live up to their early successes, or perhaps it’s just the system that beats them down to normalcy and mediocrity.  In either case those voted...