Someone the other day asked me if God was a he or a she. I tried to answer that God is not bound by gender. God, as we call him, is a convenient way to allow us to communicate who we are talking about. The early Jewish communities would not call God by the term “God.” They thought that ...

I’ve missed you. In November of 2021, I turned in my Family Matters column, and in all honesty, I didn’t know that it would be my last one. My plan had always been to keep writing it with my final one being a tribute to my mother when she passed. The great news is she’s alive and well ...

I recently read a story about a mom trying to help her daughter through a stressful time. She filled three pots with water and put them on the stove. In one, she added carrots. In​ another​​, ​eggs. In the third, coffee beans. The mom sat down at the kitchen table and asked her daughter ...

A 48 year old woman presented to her podiatrist with complaints of some numb toes. Her left 4th and the 5th toes were painful and discolored, even tending towards black. This individual did not have diabetes or hypertension, and she didn’t smoke (although her husband and son were smokers). ...

In my last article, I wrote: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to identify cause-and-effect, to find patterns, and to draw conclusions from our success and failure. A story is a survival mechanism wrapped in words.” I also discussed the tendency ...

In many ways, the Lake Superior copper district paralleled most of the rest of the country in the decades after the Civil War. There were also differences. On the national scene, at the beginning of the war, the United States was largely a society based on agriculture. As Bruce Catton wrote ...