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Introduction Our family has always enjoyed watching good television together—there’s nothing we like more than settling down and watching a good story well-told. And with the advent of streaming television, we can go back and re-visit some classic TV shows that Jodee and I enjoyed growing up. Part of…

Introduction Our family has always enjoyed watching good television together—there’s nothing we like more than settling down and watching a good story well-told. And with the advent of streaming television, we can go back and re-visit some classic TV shows that Jodee and I enjoyed growing up. Part of…

Introduction I may be dating myself with this reference, but how many of you remember the comedy duo from the 1960’s, the Smothers Brothers? Tom and Dick Smothers had a popular and controversial TV variety show in the 1960’s, and a long career on stage as comedic folk-singers. One of the linchpins of…

Introduction I may be dating myself with this reference, but how many of you remember the comedy duo from the 1960’s, the Smothers Brothers? Tom and Dick Smothers had a popular and controversial TV variety show in the 1960’s, and a long career on stage as comedic folk-singers. One of the linchpins of…

Introduction I will never forget the first time I saw a total solar eclipse. We have been extraordinarily fortunate that there have been two total solar eclipses that our family has been able to view—the first one in Kentucky in 2017, and the second one back in 2024 up in Meadville (we got to stand in…

Introduction The older I get the more I pick up random bits of trivia that I have no real use for, but just take up residence in my head—all these little random facts piled in one corner of my mind like a drawer full of single socks you always get from the dryer. For instance—did you know that our Sun…

Introduction The older I get the more I pick up random bits of trivia that I have no real use for, but just take up residence in my head—all these little random facts piled in one corner of my mind like a drawer full of single socks you always get from the dryer. For instance—did you know that our Sun…

Introduction On November 15th, 2018, a 26-year old missionary, John Allen Chau, paddled his collapsible kayak onto the beach of North Sentinel Island, a tiny 20-square mile island on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal. It was the end of a long and complicated journey driven by his single-minded purpose:…

Introduction On November 15th, 2018, a 26-year old missionary, John Allen Chau, paddled his collapsible kayak onto the beach of North Sentinel Island, a tiny 20-square mile island on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal. It was the end of a long and complicated journey driven by his single-minded purpose:…

Introduction Of all the holidays that Americans decorate for, Christmas is far and away decorated with some kind of lights . And we use a lot of lights—according to one industry website, Pennsylvanians are estimated to use as much as 67 million megawatts of electricity for Christmas lights in the 45-day…