During the month of April, you can download an audio book for free by one of my favorite people, Corrie Ten Boom, who survived the Nazi concentrations camps. The book is well known to many as “The Hiding Place”, a movie was done based on the book. Corrie Ten Boom was a remarkable woman, and [...]

Yes, a day set aside, especially in Dublin, Ireland – but elsewhere as well – to celebrate an author, a writer, James Joyce! How did the name for the day originate, and why honor James Joyce on the 16th of June?  Some would just say “why not”, but let me explain a bit.  Joyce wrote [...]

This month is National Poetry Month. If you were to play “what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear….” and fill the blank with “poetry”, the poem I heard when attending school as a child would come to mind immediately, it always does. It’s not the first poem that I heard, it [...]