In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving one week earlier to help boost the economy. (I guess Black Friday was important back then, too!) But his plan backfired big time! Chaos broke out: some states followed the new date, others stuck to the traditional one, and a few (like Texas) just celebrated both. People were […]
Off the coast of Florida, long-lost Spanish treasure, over $1 million dollars’ worth, was recently pulled from the depths of the sea, a reminder of a sunken fleet lost in a hurricane over 300 years ago. Though hidden beneath waves for centuries, the treasure waited, untouched by time, until the right moment and the right […]
The artist Chuck Close once said, “Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” Along the same lines, Tchaikovsky said, “A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.” E.B. White said it this way: “A writer who […]
Gordon, one of the founders of Gordon Conwell Divinity School, told of being out walking and looking across a field at a house. There beside the house was what looked like a man pumping furiously on one of those hand pumps. As Gordon watched, the man continued to pump at a tremendous rate; he seemed […]
