As we were reading last night, I asked my wife if she was enjoy= ing the library book we’d picked up. “Oh, yes, dear!&#8= 221; was her enthusiastic reply. =  = “What’s it about?” I wondered = aloud.   “It is a wonderful novel about a woman my age who…

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT the safe that was invented by a cop and ro= bber team? It was quite a combination.   = HAVE YOU HE= ARD ABOUT the skeleton that was a bad liar? You could see right through it. &nbsp= ; HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT the crime in…

Af= ter 51 years of ministry, a factor in our choice of retirement location in = 2021 was a wonderful Christian University located in a small Midwestern com= munity.  Maranatha Baptist University is a fundamental. biblical, cons= ervative, accredited, high-quality educational institution.  Both my w= ife and I were in…

Scott C posted, “I asked the worship leader what we would= be singing this Sunday. He told me he would cross that bridge six times wh= en he comes to it.”   Ken M said, “Whenever I think of music in the 80&= #8217;s, I think of the boom box.…

These are some real messages on signs seen around the world (so= me obviously for English-speaking visitors to that region). Some make perfe= ct sense, while others show something lost in translation.   > Park benches may = be wet during periods of rain.[France] =   > For restrooms, go…

[First of the Month mean= s another dose of bad jokes, puns, and lame humor. Supposedly from my count= y in Wisconsin, but we know they aren’t.] Watertown police recently found an abandoned car that had been u= sed in the burglary of a sporting goods store. The only item…

(In honor of my bride’s birthday a couple days ago, I&= #8217;m sharing insights on the joys of aging. After all, having a birthday= is better than the alternative.] >It would be good if “the buck stopped here”. We sure could= use a few.   >Some days you’re the dog,…

[My dear wife celebrated a birthday over the weekend. Won&#8217= ;t share her age, since we know once you’re over 75 nobody is countin= g anymore. Needed to relate insights and annotations of reaching this age.]=   &g= t;We start out with nothing, and still have most of it.  …

‘It Couldn’t Be Done’ by E= dgar Guest Somebody said = that it couldn’t be doneB= ut he with a chuckle repliedTha= t “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be oneWho wouldn’t say so till he’d trie= d. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin= On…

A mom texted, "Hi Son. What d= o IDK, LY, and TTYL mean?"   He texted back, "I Don’t Know, Love You, & Talk To You = Later."   The mom= read that and responded, "Oh, that’s okay. Don’t worry about it. I’ll= ask your sister later. Love you, too."…

There was an elderly couple who in= their old age noticed that they were getting a lot more forgetful, so they= decided to go to the doctor. The doctor told them that they should start w= riting things down, so they won’t forget.   They went home and the woman…

A child asked his father, "Ho= w were people born?"   His father said, "In the beginning, God made Adam and Eve, then= Adam and Eve made babies, then their babies became adults and made babies,= and so on."   The= child then went to his mother, asked her the…

What did the tree say to spring once it warmed up? What a re-leaf. &nb= sp; What month is the shortest of the year? May. It has just three letters.=   Why is spring the best= time to open a flower and gift shop? Busine= ss is blooming.   =…