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This Saturday, we will celebrate the 244th anniversary of the founding of our country. Unfortunately, this holiday will be unlike others we have had since the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776. As a nation, we are struggling with…

I was reading an interesting article about creatures of the deep that can be seen only by using a deep sea sub that can travel to exceptional depths - observing things that have rarely been seen before. On one such…

Today, our oldest daughter, Kristin, celebrated a birthday. How I remember the day that she was born! Janet was in labor for almost 36 hours and finally at 12:32 p.m. on June 25, 1975, Kristin arrived. I was there in…

Once again, it's Father's Day. It's been a somewhat strange week and I have actually gone back and read some of my posts from prior years on the topic - it's been a part of my remembering years past, which…

I learned a new word yesterday - and it's the title of tonight's post, Sunflecks... Clearly, this has something to do with the center of our solar system but I really didn't have any idea what it meant. So... I…