In about two weeks my brother and his wife will celebrate 40 years of marriage, having tied the knot about four years before I did the same. The older I get, the more grateful I am for the faithfulness of my parents, who were married for 42 years before my mother died. As in any…
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The recent story that an apple a day may not keep the doctor makes for good headlines, but I beg to differ. There is more to this story than meets the casual eye. Granted, researchers who followed more than 8,000 people over a three-year period found those who ate an apple daily didn’t have significantly…
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Twenty-one years have passed since George Foreman claimed the title of oldest heavyweight champion of the world at age 45 by defeating Michael Moore. However, my fascination with his comeback predates that fight. A couple years earlier, half a dozen other men and I gathered at the home of a friend who has since passed…
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March marked the fifth anniversary of the premiere of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. The six-week ABC mini-series won an Emmy Award for “Best Reality Series” and catapulted Huntington, West Virginia into the national spotlight. Not only did the lush, colorful scenes that opened each installment put an attractive face on the area, it brought permanent…
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Time magazine’s recent cover story on health pictured a wide-eyed infant next to the headline: “This baby could live to be 142 years old.” The feature touched off such discussions as one raising the question: is it a good idea to live that long? Most of the cover package stories detailed research into aging and…
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According to the researchers who check the pulse of America, I live in the most miserable state in the nation. West Virginia recently topped the ratings for the sixth consecutive year, dragged down by such factors as poor well-being, motivation, finances, safety, and health. Kentucky and Ohio, the two states bordering the area where I…
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Thanks to the President’s Day blizzard that engulfed the eastern U.S., I started shoveling late that afternoon to give myself a head start on the additional accumulation in the forecast. Then I awoke to more snow, on the day that happened to be my 36th anniversary. Every year when this personally historic occasion rolls around,…
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A teenager from St. Charles, Missouri—a half-hour northwest of St. Louis—recovered after spending 15 minutes under water following his plunge into an ice-covered lake. It’s a story so miraculous that in addition to local media, it received coverage recently in USA Today and a report on the Today show. There are many similar accounts. They…
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Since it had been a long time since I wrote about the company, I didn’t know until recently that Logos Bible Software had been renamed Faithlife Corporation. Name changes are nothing to get excited about, especially in this era of corporate gobbledygook and government obfuscation, whose goal seems to be hindering communication. However, what caught…
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The news of the recent collapse of an old overpass bridge onto I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio hit me on more than one level. For one, I grew up two hours north of Cincinnati and had driven that stretch of road on many occasions, including the winter I had a college internship at the Cincinnati Enquirer.…
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