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This week-end was filled with numerous reports of bad news from around the country. First of all, 27 year old Matthew Warren, the adult son of Rick Warren, Founding Pastor of Saddleback Church, took his own life Friday - the…

It's way late at night. And there's so much I could write about this evening. If my father was still alive, April 4th would have been his 90th birthday. April 3rd would have been my parents 65th anniversary. No such…

During our stay here in Alabama, we found out that Helen Keller was born in one of the nearby towns - Tuscumbia, Alabama. It isn't more that 15 or 20 minutes from the hotel where we are staying and so…

Well, today is Janet's birthday. As you know, we are in Alabama and I am wondering if somebody on the staff here in the hotel put a notice out that today is Janet's special day. I mean she is getting…

I am writing to you this evening from the Shoals of Alabama. Apparently, the area is made up of several smaller communities that are referred to in a single breath as a region. In particular, we are near Florence and…