A recent FAA study found that pilots are losing their “edge.” Their flying skills are being eroded because they are “under-challenged.” It seems that modern planes are now equipped in such a way...

A few years ago during the height of the war in Afghanistan, a cool thing happened in the Atlanta airport. As a group of young soldiers were making their way through the terminal in their...

A while back, I visited a site that offered creative thinking puzzles. One of them was called “The Drop the Block Problem.” It showed a stick figured man holding a block of wood and it asked the...

We’d been sitting in a restaurant for 2 or 3 hours, just catching up on the highs and lows in each other’s lives, when all of a sudden, my single and suffering friend blurted out at me, “This...

My first encounter with a “heads up display” happened in an airplane simulator. A friend and I used to go ”fly” navy jets for fun. In order to win the aerial battle, you had to master the heads up...

It was well past 3:00 am the other morning when my body finally allowed me to trudge off to sleep. I had been having another “tete-a-tete” with some real pain, the kind that hurts. “It just isn’t...

Our society has ongoing dialogs about death and dying. Earlier this year there was a flurry of articles about the ways and means that various states execute prisoners on death row. Another article...

If you look up “chivalry” in the dictionary, you will find definitions that highlight the qualities idealized by knighthood. You will see things listed like bravery, courtesy, honor and gallantry....

We are all celebrating Thanksgiving this week. The holiday comes with incredible food, a break from work, some wonderful football games and of course the onslaught of relatives! But just the thought...

One of our elementary boys football teams lost every game this year. They were on the young side, had no experience and tended to enjoy each other’s company much more than learning football...

One of my favorite old hymns is Fannie Crosby’s “Blessed Assurance.” The first verse says, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation, purchase of God,...

John and Lisa Henderson live in Utah. They have three sons ages 5, 8 and 11. And according to a story in CNN Living, their boys have had a real problem with their behavior. Specifically, they have...