There is a thought that gets shared around this time of year in northern areas with four seasons about how the leaves are about to show us how beautiful it is to let things go. My mind got to wandering as I considered this the other day. Yes, the changing of the colors of the…
Twenty years ago, the September 11 terrorist attacks diverted 38 flights to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Aircraft instruments, air traffic controllers, and pilots guided the planes to land at the quiet airport that had been threatened with closure. As the town of 7,000 swelled to twice its population, a more critical navigational aid guided…
This post was shared with permission from the author, Kallie Dalley Rally for Dalley Tomorrow it will be 1 year. 365 days since our world stopped spinning as we knew it. I’ll never forget that day. The day cancer took a cure away & left us with a terminal diagnosis. I’ll never forget sliding down…
“The world is full of obvious things, which no one by chance ever observed” —Sherlock Holmes On Sunday evenings, my family goes for a walk. I am not sure when this tradition began, or who started it, although I have a sneaking suspicion it was my husband, and that he regularly dragged me along, as…
Thomas Edison never invented a compass. It was one of the few things, perhaps, that he didn’t invent or improve. By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Edison had acquired a record 1,093 patents for his amazing inventions. I wrote this article on a phone, which is powered by a battery, and the light…
The virtue words don’t seem to be used in our conversations much today. In fact, use of the word virtue itself is quite uncommon. I come across those virtue words such as loyalty, bravery, honesty, diligence, patience, humility, temperance, and integrity most often in social media memes. It is far too simple to pass along…
Calibrating Your Compass A compass is designed to aid in accurately navigating our travels. Ships and aircraft have highly refined devices, but nearly all of us carry a compass around in our phones. For the most part, my phone GPS saves me time and aggravation. Except when it decides to misbehave and send me off…
Tenille Farr loves Big Ocean Women. She proved it by finding time to chat with me for this article in the midst of company, three teenage sons involved in homecoming, ball games, her garden “on full strength,” canning, and a truckload of fruit to distribute. Seeing her jam-packed life, I offered to wait until another…
My first experience with a compass was when I was in the 9 th grade. By some sheercombination of dumb luck, limited entrants, and determination, I found myself representing myjunior high school in the Geography Olympiad. There were several categories that we had tostudy to prepare; I was good with maps, countries and capitals, but…
Photo Credit: Frances Oldham Kelsey, MD, PhD, receives the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civil Service from President John F. Kennedy in 1962. Photo credit: Special Collections Research Center/The University of Chicago Library When I first learned of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, my immediate thought was that she embodied this month’s tenet: “We recognize and…