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This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s a story that reminds me that people always act according to their true nature. The story goes like this… Once upon a time, a scorpion wanted to cross a river, but of course, scorpions can’t swim. The scorpion noticed a frog sitting on […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s one of my favorite stories.It goes like this… On September 23, 2019, Eddie Ogan died at the age of 88. She’d been married for 66 years and in addition to the one son that she and her husband had, they adopted 11 other […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s simply a poem written by Will Allen Dromgoole who was born in 1860. It’s entitled “The Bridge Builder,” and it goes like this… An old man going down a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s a good reminder that we get to choose our attitudes. I say this, because your attitude and how you feel isn’t determined by your circumstances. The way that you interpret events determines how you feel, and the way that you interpret events is […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s a good reminder to be gracious. I’ve been told that once upon a time, a lady from New York had just taken her seat in a car on a train bound for Philadelphia, when a somewhat stout man sitting in the car lit […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s a good reminder to stop and take the time to thank those who have helped you. On September 8, 1860, the steamship “Lady Elgin” set out to make the trip from Chicago to Milwaukee, and she was rammed by a lumber schooner and […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s simply a poem written by Edgar A. Guest. It’s entitled “Good Business,” and it goes like this… If I possessed a shop or store, I’d drive the grouches off my floor. I’d never let a gloomy guy offend the folks who come to […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s simply a poem written by Dr. Seuss. It’s entitled “The Zoad in the Road,” and my version goes like this… Did I ever tell you about the young Zoad Who came to two signs at a fork in the road? One said to […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s a good reminder that we all need to have a reason to hope. I’m always skeptical when I read about “undocumented experiments,” but they make nice illustrations whether or not they’re true. Supposedly, scientists performed an experiment by dropping rats, one by one, […]

This blog post is taken from my book Golden Nuggets, and it’s simply a poem written by Edgar A. Guest. It was written about 100 years ago, it’’s entitled “It Couldn’t Be Done,” and it goes like this… Somebody said that it couldn’t be done. But he with a chuckle replied, that maybe it couldn’t, […]