By Jon Hembree When you have a talented sibling, you can either be jealous or proud. But when your little sister is as talented as mine, you’ve really got no choice but to be proud. My little sister is an incredible photographer. A Tough City Julia fell in love with photography around middle school after […]
By H. Lynn Gardner Marv Dahmen, a retired art teacher, serves as a deacon of the Christian Church of Carl Junction, Missouri. Through rocks, cars, and sculptures, his creativity abounds. Art with Rocks Since age 5 Marv has loved rocks. At age 13 he began to cut and polish stones and make jewelry. Collecting rocks […]
By Lindsey Bell New Way of Detecting Cancer There’s a new way to detect cancer, but it’s not a medical test like anything you’ve ever seen before. The California Canine Training Center has trained dogs to detect cancer in urine samples through smell. Dierdra McElroy, the head of California Canine, recently shared with Fox News […]
By Meg Foster In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote is the essence of empathy—moving beyond mere sympathy and taking on […]
By Katherine Scott Jones Its first stirrings drew me awake this morning, my subconscious forming the germ of an idea that would become what you’re reading now. Pushed into the conscious realm, words sprang ex nihilo into existence—nothing made into something. How does it happen? No one really knows, although we have a word for […]
