The Harry Potter phenomenon continues. If you’re like me, you’re eagerly awaiting the sixth movie, “The Half-Blood Prince,” which will continue the Harry Potter saga and his friend’s fight to defeat Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. It has been a long time since the release of the second movie, “The Chamber of Secrets.” How…

When you have a Betta fish, there is nothing worse than understanding that your little companion has contracted a Betta fish disease. There are several unusual types of diseases that a Betta fish can get, and you are the only one that your Betta fish can depend on to help them be healthier when they…

I recently heard from a wife who had pressured her husband about how he “really” felt about her. He felt like he needed to ask this question because he couldn’t help but notice how dead things had felt between them or how they tended to ignore each other, outside of their children. So the wife…

I’m sitting in the steam room, emptying myself. Somewhere, someone said that this is the way to remove all toxins from your body. In my mind, however, I imagine all the fat dripping off my body piece by piece. The other day my friend asked me if I knew where the fat goes. I wanted…

Who would have guessed in 1996 that Tickle Me Elmo, a newly released plush toy, would become the new sales sensation that Christmas? It was “just” a funny lump of red hair that giggled hysterically when you tickled it. And yet, since then Tickle Me Elmo and its successors have topped the sales charts for…

Cancer Cancer in dogs can affect everything from the skin to the bones. The disease is caused by uncontrolled cell growth and can take one of two forms: benign (does not grow unlimited, aggressive, does not invade surrounding tissues, and does not spread to other parts of the body) and malignant (meaning it enters healthy…

Have you decided that you need a good but affordable stereo receiver? If your answer is yes, I would like to suggest that you take a look at the Onkyo TX-8555. One good thing about Onkyo products is that they are manufactured by a company that has more than six decades of experience in manufacturing…

Just when your shoes or boots start to feel comfortable, you notice a split on the side of the sole. Or a heel begins to separate. You can take the culprit to a cobbler to have the sole repaired or the heel of the boot glued, or you can do it yourself in seconds. There…

At the beginning of the week, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage informed me that she and some of her friends were going shopping at a thrift store on Thursday. I nodded and smiled, not knowing where I was going with this. “Now,” he said, “you’ll have to take care of your lunch. Do you…

If we accept the Bible as the literal Word of God, and believe that God says what He means and means what He says, then we cannot escape the fact that God expressly forbids any premarital or extramarital sex. The Bible does not do nonsense, it goes straight to the point. The Hebrew God is…