Have we learned anything in the last 150 years? Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was given one year after the famed battle, in the middle of the Civil War, to dedicate the battlefield as a cemetery. The speech lasted a mere 2 minutes. It was preceded by a speech from Edward Everett that lasted an agonizing 2…
As a parent, I always dread getting a call from the school phone number. Like the time I was in Boston and I got a call saying Bryce’s front teeth had been knocked out. What am I supposed to do, from Boston? Turns out it wasn’t Bryce, or his permanent front teeth. It was McKinley…
I was getting a little bored with my walking and running routine and with my favorite 10 minute workout, so I decided to try something different for November. I saw a post in my fitness group for a 30-day Plank Challenge. I thought it would be good to build a little core strength since that…
My grandfather, Glasco Rector, was an amazing man. He kept his head down and worked hard. He was a man of few words. He was a Marine and served in Guadalcanal in WWII, where he survived being shot. He returned from the war to my grandmother Edith and made a family of 4 children, started…