Miscellaneous

  If I were to use the term “walkie talkie” most people would think of a communication device. So you can imagine how surprised I was when a young man from Birmingham, England, asked me, “Have you ever eaten a ‘walkie talkie’”? At first I thought I had misunderstood him, then I figured he was…

  An important lesson I learned from my cousins in Star Valley Wyoming was that they were the luckiest people in the world and I was the unluckiest. It didn’t matter what we were doing because if anyone was going to be embarrassed, laughed at, frustrated, or get into trouble, it would be me. I…

  Anne Sullivan is well known as the teacher that helped Helen Keller turn her life around. What many don’t know is that Anne had her own challenges to overcome. When she was 10 years old she was placed in an orphanage, and, at 14 she was able to go to school after pleading with…

  The classic story of Chicken Little has many versions and while the names of the characters may change the story is basically the same. An acorn falls on the head of Chicken Little. Because she didn’t know its source she panicked, convinced herself that the sky was falling and made a foolish decision to…

  There is a story of a mother who needed surgery that required a hospital stay of 7–10 days. The hospital had a strict visiting policy that would not allow anyone under 12 to visit. This mom had two daughters’ ages 11 and 6. A few days after the surgery, she received a phone call…

  I started my professional career in a rural community and I didn’t know anyone when I moved there but I quickly formed a friendship with a man from my church. Steve was born and raised in this community and at the time I met him he had just returned to start a business. He…