I am not ashamed to admit it, I was a mama’s boy. I love my dad, but my heart belonged to my mother. I know some men may have just lost respect for me, saying I was a mama’s boy, but I am not ashamed. For almost 10 years of my life, I was an only child. My mother had been told as a ...

Comfort — it’s a noun that Merriam-Webster defines as follows: Assistance, support; consolation in time of trouble or worry; a feeling of relief or encouragement; contented well-being; and so on. I am sharing these definitions with you here because I want you to understand what I mean ...

My wife, Lynnda, likes to watch the Hallmark Channel. I don’t mind watching. It’s entertaining and the movies have a happy ending. One consistent theme in all of Hallmark’s love stories happens when the relationship of the couple is ready to fall apart, a wise friend or relative steps in ...

May 1–7 marks the 39th annual National Travel and Tourism Week, and there is more reason than ever to celebrate the collective strength and promising future of the U.S. travel and tourism industry. The past few years have been hard for the travel industry, like so many other industries, and ...

It’s that time of year again — time to throw open your windows, air out your home and wash away the dust, dirt and debris that have accumulated over the long winter. In addition to those traditional spring cleaning tasks such as washing walls and windows, sweeping, beating or even deep ...

We had Earth Day on Friday. Americans are creative. At a conference last week we heard about a unique project in the Midwest. A company drilled wells and is producing natural gas from a shallow coal reservoir. Most of the natural gas is put into a pipeline. What is unique, about a quarter of ...