The big news story of the day seems to be the mix up at the Academy Awards show, where the wrong movie was announced as the winner of the Oscar in the “Best Picture” category. Amidst all the confusion, it was discovered that someone had given the wrong envelope to the presenters, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. In the end, the award was presented to the right cast of the winning movie. However, there were a lot of red faces due to this embarrassing snafu. To the average worki

It is with sincere apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that I start this column off with a play-on-words from a well-known line in his poem, “The Rainy Day.” It is an indisputable fact that “into each life some PAIN must fall.” We cannot escape the reality of human suffering and pain in this present, temporal world. Even God’s perfect Son, Jesus Christ, endured intense pain during His time on earth. No one gets through this pilgrimage of life without experiencing some mea

Someone who I know and love defined Valentine’s Day as “The day of the year when men and women (and children) everywhere spend an obscene amount of money on products designed to prove their love.” This relative added the suggestion, which she and her husband have chosen to follow, to stop playing the consumerism game for this particular holiday and instead spend more time together all year long. What a rational and responsible approach! Sandy and I made a decision several yea

Valentine’s Day was always a traumatic time for me, during my elementary school years. It was definitely my least favorite holiday. The reason for my dread was that we were required each year to decorate a box and sign cards for all of our classmates. The first challenge was to find a masculine way to appropriately decorate a Valentine’s box. The only choices available were white, lacey hearts and big, red hearts. The teachers never offered us any camouflage or sports related