Top 10 Hot Wheels (My List)

As Christmas time quickly morphs from expectation to reality, I'm reminded of some of my favorite gifts when I was a child. Hot Wheels were a big deal when I was growing up in the 60's and my brother and I spent hours racing and playing with our favorite cars. Here is a list of my Top 10 cars that I have owned:

Prepare To Meet Your God

We've all been driving along, captured by our own thoughts, maybe getting lost in a favorite tune and then suddenly, we see it. The words, "Prepare To Meet Your GOD", plastered on an huge billboard, maybe painted on a overpass, or possibly held up high by a person alongside the road. Whatever platform you view it, the message remains the same.

In America, seeing that we have all become immune to seeing church steeples on every corner, I fear that this particular message has lost its potency. I do believe that one day I will meet my Creator, but my finite mind starts to shut as I start trying to fill in some of the descriptions of that encounter. It's been my experience that I'm not alone in that conclusion. 

Games of My Youth

In my previous blog I shared my memories of our Saturday evening game nights during high school. By the time my friends and I had graduated from high school, we had already moved beyond card games into two radically different genres of gaming, Fantasy and War games.

I don't remember who in our group discovered Dungeons & Dragons but the game itself was pretty new. (Note: Published in 1974 by TSR) One of my friends brought the D&D Players Handbook to one of our Saturday game nights and we were hooked. A game that was totally dependent upon your own imagination? By Monday evening I had already purchased my own Players Handbook and started memorizing the rules of play. (And there were a lot of rules of play . . . )

A Day That Will Live In Infamy

I invite you to watch this short documentary (less than 15 minutes long) about the Oberg Color Film Footage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th, 1941. This footage tells the story of Harold & Eda Oberg, who capture this video during and after the attack on Hickam Army Airfield.

The attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was the most costly attack  on American soil (Killing 2,402 Americans) until the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (Killing 2,977 people). Both of these attacks prompted an unparalleled response by the United States in enacting retribution for these attacks.

You can view the Oberg Documentary at the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6auSQPvGs