Essays

  As you can see from the attached photo, our grandson, two-year old Judah Michael, was tuckered out.  A day at…

  Today is my birthday.  Appropriately, the word we will “essay into” is “life.” Our daughter, Rachel, visited us over…

  “Dull” is a word that comes to us from Old English - dol – about the year 1200. Originally…

  Today’s lively word is “church.”  Did I lose you already?  Did someone say: “Isn’t ‘lively church’ an oxymoron?”  Stick…

  The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (born 1785) and Wilhelm (born 1786), had six younger brothers and a sister.  What kind…

  Sometime my sons call me “Earl.” It’s an odd and treasured nickname. I hear: “Earl, would you make me…

  According to legend, St. George defeated the dragon and won the hand of his lady while bearing a shield…