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Reader’s note: The following deals with a rather morbid matter – death. It also presents various ideas (ideas you may or may not agree with) about how humans deal with it. Enter at your own risk. Michael Shermer is a provocative columnist for the Scientific American magazine. He often takes on topics that are disputed and dissects them with the twin scalpels of objectivity and...

Have you ever wondered why we love stories so much? I mean, really……here in America…..we LOVE stories. As kids we cannot wait for bedtime stories or story time at school. As adults, we flock to go to the movies, DVR our favorite programs on TV, and buy the DVD’s that we love the most. But why? Why do stories capture our attention at such a high level? I think it’s...

What if every day was the best day of your life?? It can be. Every day can be the best day of your life if you choose it to be. I have not written in a while mainly because over the past two months I have struggled, emotionally, and a little physically with what is happening in my life. During these times, I relied on God to guide me and help me with my anxiety. There were days when I...

It is interesting that when we are young, we feel invincible, indestructible. The twilight years of our lives, the ending years, days and hours of our lives are so distant that we simply don't think about them, don't focus on them. And maybe that is as it should be. By setting those issues and concerns aside, the young can concentrate on the here and now - facing challenges, overcoming them,...

A while back, an ambulance in Ohio headed to a hospital was broadsided at an intersection. The patients in the ambulance were being treated for injuries from an earlier car wreck when their ambulance was struck. In that second accident, the impact and subsequent fire killed three emergency medical technicians and two patients; a fourth medical technician and the driver of the other vehicle were...

Boundaries are not the exclusive properties of places on the face of the earth. True each town, county, state and country has its own boundary which is expected to be honored. Many a war has been fought over disputes about boundaries. But people have boundaries as well. Like geographical boundaries, when violated, there can be unpleasant results. When involving people, the personal...

It is interesting that when we are young, we feel invincible, indestructible. The twilight years of our lives, the ending years, days and hours of our lives are so distant that we simply don’t think about them, don’t focus on them. And maybe that is as it should be. By setting those issues and concerns aside, the young can concentrate on the here and now—facing challenges, overcoming them,...

In many respects living life is like taking a ride in a cab. When you get in the cab the flag is dropped and the meter starts running. In a similar fashion the day we are born the meter in the cab that is going to take us through life starts ticking. If the cab ride is interesting and exciting, as life often is, we tend to ignore that meter. It just keeps racking up the miles and cost - the...

The following is not meant to start a religious debate, but rather just to reflect on the greatest literary work of all time and some of what it says about life. The bible is many things. Depending on whom you are and what you believe, it is a book of history, it is a book of genealogy, it is a book of conjecture and speculation, it is a book of dreams, it is a book of belief for Christians, it...