Ten Reasons Our Marriage Has Lasted 50 Years

It was a hot August Sunday afternoon in 1963 when my teenage bride-to-be and her father walked down the aisle at First Christian Church in Longmont, Colorado. Before “God and these witnesses” we pledged to “love, honor and obey” until “death do us part.” It seems to have stuck. Against all odds, we have kept […]

Ben Franklin’s Habitude of Virtues

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 and died in 1790 at the ripe old age of 84. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for […]