In demonstrating Saladmaster cookware I have fun showing off the Saladmaster machine. Invented back in 1946 by a man named Harry Lemmons, it’s an amazing food processor that is unique in its simplicity, efficiency and design.
One thing I show customers is what it can do with a stalk of celery. Everyone’s least favorite part of celery is […]

The 1976 movie “Gumball Rally” is about an illegal coast to coast road race that starts in New York City and ends in Los Angeles. If you’re a fan of fast cars and road rally racing, it’s an entertaining film. Car buffs who thrill to the sounds of performance engines say it’s especially fun to watch with […]

Ever see something that makes you wonder, “What’s the point?”
It’s really windy here in Lubbock. Which is to say the Pope is Catholic, water is wet, the Grand Canyon is deep, and the Minnesota Vikings still haven’t won a Super Bowl.
If Rodgers and Hammerstein weren’t able to obtain the financing for “Oklahoma!” they could have staged the musical “Lubbock” because […]

Fox News reported last October that Akira Haraguchi, a Japanese mental health counselor, broke his own world record by reciting pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory. The 60-year old man needed 16 hours to do it.
In mathematical terms, pi is “a physical constant defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter”. […]

Last Wednesday evening I took the girls to Golfland to play mini-golf. When you play putt-putt with twin 6-year olds, you don’t bother playing yourself. You just help them try to stay focused on the hole in front of them and keep them from trying to climb the Windmill or wade in the water hazard.
They […]

Walking across the parking lot to my truck, I looked up at the blue sky and thought how glad I am to live where I’m not shoveling snow the day before New Year’s Eve.
Unlocking the door on my Mazda and getting in the way I’ve done thousands of times, I stopped half way. The feeling […]

Mercy means we are spared the punishment we deserve. Grace means we receive blessings we don’t deserve. Sometimes these truths are illustrated in a single terrifying moment.
It was 4 PM on the afternoon of April 16th. We had just put our twins down for a nap. Annie and Emma, protesting mildly because it’s in their […]

  
A pleasant discovery upon moving to the Phoenix valley was how much life exists in the desert. God has created a number of both plants and animals to thrive in this climate.
One enjoyable way to get some exercise during the months October through May, the time when it isn’t a gazillion degrees hot, is to […]

“Are you finding everything ok?”
The 20-something brother and sister were looking through a stack of Phoenix Suns shirts.
“Who knows? We’re buying for our mother. She’s really picky.”
“Don’t you have the “it’s from my daughter, I’m sure whatever it is I’ll love it” thing going for you?”
“You don’t know our mother.”
“So it’s more like, “You’re my […]