Over a lifetime I’ve done a lot of the driving. But this time, I was the passenger. It’s a good thing I was the passenger. I glanced over at this little amusement area by the side of the road. We just zipped by it, but I saw a water slide, a miniature...

Many Civil War scholars would consider the Battle of Gettysburg as the turning point – or certainly one of the turning points – of that bloody war. And Civil War buffs have discussed for decades what factors actually decided the outcome of the battle...

My wife grew up on a little farm in the Ozarks just down the road from her grandparents. It was almost like a page out of that television program, The Waltons. The family was close and they never had much materially, but neither did the families around them. In...

When it comes to growing things, I’m not exactly Seedling Sam the Gardening Man. I grew up in an apartment in the city, OK? But my farm girl wife and some friends who have amazing green thumbs? Oh, they’ve taught me a lot about how things grow and...

Schools and teachers frequently run into what we might call a motivational challenge; how to motivate a student to do the right thing and stop doing the wrong thing. Now, they used to hit students on the hand or even spank them in the old days. Of course, not any...