Why is Black Friday black and Good Friday good
November 27, 2015
The question from the back seat was a good one: “Why is Friday called black?” and then the follow up, “and also, why is Black Friday black and Good Friday good?” I flipped through my mental rolodex to see if the question had been covered in Alex McFarland’s “The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will […]
We are blessed, with or without blessings to count
November 25, 2015
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Or is it? More accurately stated: tomorrow is the official day of the year that the United States of America sets apart as “Thanksgiving Day.” Whether or not people actually give thanks on Thanksgiving Day is entirely up to them. That is evidence of the extraordinary freedom of thought and ideas we […]
