“I’ll wish you a Merry Christmas, — if you don’t mind.” That’s how Charles Osgood finished a television broadcast on CBS News "Sunday Morning" some years ago. Osgood was the host of the show prior to the current host Jane Pauley. (Osgood is now 89 years old) In my opinion, Pauley, ...

2022 is ending and it’s bringing changes for several people I know. After long years of working, it’s retirement time for them. A few of them I’ve known for a long time. They’re my age and have decided that it’s time to “hang it up.” I’m old enough to retire, but for the time ...

Christmas is upon us! We sang Christmas songs in church last Sunday. It was great, but I still have trouble with getting the syllables right when singing “The First Noel.” It’s not one syllable: “looked.” It’s two syllables: “look-ed” Oh well, that just one of my Christmas ...

I heard a Soren Kierkegaard quote used in a TV program the other night and it caught my interest. My wife and I have been watching the series “Madam Secretary” (now old – it ran 6 seasons and ended in 2019). It’s a show we both like and can watch together now and then. We’re in the ...

Thanksgiving is a terrific holiday! It’s one of my favs, if not “thee” favorite of them all. Everyone has their own reasons for liking particular holidays. I know several people who love Halloween. And – no; they’re not witches. (Well, maybe that depends on your definition of witch.) ...

As I recall, I was in a high school English class when I was taught about “sweeping generalizations” and “hasty generalizations.” A sweeping generalization is when one takes a presumed general rule and believes that it applies to everything or everyone. For example: Someone in Colorado ...