Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

The October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek had an interesting article in its Science section titled "How to Read a Face."  The page long article was about the emerging field of social neuroscience which is based on the idea that human brains are "wired to connect."I found it fascinating and apropos to Christianity and the [...]

You must go to this link at Digital Journalist to read about and to see "The Ordeal of Ted Jackson" from it's December 2005 issue online.  It is overwhelming in scope just as Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breaks afterward were.  Ted offers his own deeply emotional words and thoughts, too, in video [...]

[Note:  I'm doing something totally new and different this week.  I'm bringing you a two part portrait of a man of God, Ted Jackson, Senior Photojournalist for the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He is renowned for his photography and work, having won two Pulitzer prizes, a Robert F. Kennedy award and many other [...]

Most of you, if not all, know about and have visited Grace Notes in the past and I invite you to do so again as all of our contributors share heartwarming true vignettes from our daily lives about people who come our way and make our days a bit brighter.  Grace Notes just moved to [...]

Today I'm sharing three short, real life, inspirational stories with you.  All three are totally different, having only in common a deep reverence and enthusiasm for life.  I believe each one is vastly important, or else I wouldn't be putting each here today.  I want you each to please take a few minutes to go [...]

We had a great holiday weekend and got some real bargains, too, guys. I mean - only the finest for us. As in cheap.
So, what did we do and what did we get? We spent Friday night and Saturday on the coast with our friends in their FEMA trailer, which was […]

Just down the road, between here and downtown Slidell there’s a nice city sports park that has long had nicely trimmed shrubs on a small rise of ground out in front spelling out the name "John Slidell" in greenery. I know it’s been there since I lived in Picayune, Mississippi, and I left there in […]