Bengals Season Comes to an End
Betty enrolled in Hospice with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease when she was eighty-two. Betty was born and raised in Morgan County, Kent…
“Hold my mule” is a figurative expression from the American South that means when a person is leading a mule and they need to go somewhere, or…
European cuckoo birds inspired the creation of cuckoo clocks. These wooden wonders appealed to me in shops in Austria and Switzerland in my yo…
Bengals are Headed to the AFC Championship
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The first time I met Dr. Darrell was in December of 2013; after my heart attack, and before my open-heart surgery. He walked into my room in t…
Life is changing all around us. With technology providing an opportunity for every person on the planet to speak and listen, we are surrounded…
Mature but gentle mining bees emerge in springtime. They are an abundant and common workforce with a job to do. Often, when it comes to area b…
Bengals Playoff Victory
It’s disappointing to God that most people are usually more concerned about what they want in life than asking Him what He requires of them. S…
I’m deviating from my typical hospice patient story this week to share a personal experience. I left the house around six-thirty that morning …
“Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days…He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds wi…
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Tragedy on the Field at Paycor Stadium
As God continues to move upon the earth, He has never stopped calling His children to be truth seekers, to speak His words, and demonstrate Hi…
Nowadays we take telephone service for granted, but not so in July 1954. This is a letter at the time that the new WPKO station was having.
We are at the end of another year and it always brings thoughts of starting fresh and having hope for the future. Most of us have watched the …
Betty was in her early sixties when she enrolled in our outpatient hospice service with terminal breast cancer. It’s been several years since …
Thurman was a soft-spoken, gentle seventy- year-old man referred to Hospice for prostate cancer. He became occupationally disabled from a stro…
Recipe of the Day
I’ve read articles over the years about how Christmas is a combination of Christian and pagan symbolism along with some folklore traditions an…
Bengals 2nd Half Rally
This is part two of a two-part series about Jun and his wife, Pat. Allow me to recapitulate for those who missed part one, “Where are the Hero…
Most people have read or at least heard of a man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). He was a literary giant in his lifetime and is …
In 2020, the year of the COVID pandemic, the Ohio Statewide Bee Survey began. Never had a statewide effort to discover what bees live in our s…
This poem was written in 2012 for the Christmas program at Bethel Church.