I thought it good to share two more photographs of Amsterdam. The first photo was taken as we lunched with grandniece Molly Zaken and family at a sidewalk café. Molly’s children, left to right, are Zoe, Talia, and Eitan. What a beautiful family. Molly, daughter-in-law Jeannine, me, and granddaughter Audrey are the other people in […]
Upon arriving in Europe on August 2nd, we spent two delightful days in Holland. Among the highlights were our excursions to Haarlem and Zolendam. We truly enjoyed the old town center of Haarlem, a truly beautiful part of greater Amsterdam. This photograph will give you a sense of the place. Town centers like this are […]
More than two weeks ago I predicted that the Taliban would take over Afghanistan when Western military forces withdrew. I must admit that I did not anticipate the rapidity of the takeover. Late in his term, President Trump announced his intention to remove American military forces from Afghanistan. It was, however, to be a conditions-based, […]
Monday evening I returned from a two-week excursion to Europe. My son Harold, his wife Jeannine, granddaughter Audrey and I spent a few days in Holland and then boarded a Viking riverboat for a cruise up the Rhine. Along the way we had shore excursions in places such as Cologne, Koblenz, Heidelberg, Strausbourg, and Colmar. […]
God is not only the creator of the universe, with its billions upon billions of massive stars, he is also the creator of the small and the infinitely small. Earth teems with life of all kinds, land creatures, sea creatures, and birds of many species. It is also well to consider the multitude of microscopic […]
Sometimes I am inclined to believe that the nations of the world will never cooperate for the common good unless we are attacked by alien hordes from outer space. Some years ago, I read a science fiction story that pursued that idea. In this short novel a billionaire businessman devised and financed an elaborate hoax […]
According to a news report on Monday, Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) attacked Trump supporters over the weekend during a community meeting with New York State assembly member Rebecca Seawright. Schumer said, “You probably ask yourself the same question I ask myself: How could 74 million people vote for such a despicable human being […]
I fear that my posts sometimes reflect a “holier than thou” attitude. If that is true, I apologize. I certainly do not feel that way. I am acutely aware of my own sinful nature, and I do not hold myself up to be better than others. I was fortunate enough to have been reared in […]
For years cosmologists believe that the universe had existed eternally in more or less the same state. There was no beginning, and the physical world had always been and would always continue to be. Some scientists actually feared the thought of a finite beginning of the universe because of its possible religious implications. But that […]
I recently attended a book fair and picked up two novels, one of them was by a British author whose name was unknown to me. I read the book jacket reviews and was impressed. Reviewers used such phrases as “fluid, sparkling prose,”, “lifelike characters,” “sophisticated psychological portraits,” “a compelling page turner,” and so on. As […]
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