Tag Archives: Man

“Mancations”

Travel agencies are full of brochures touting “girlfriend getaways” (you know, another name for an overdue trip to a spa with your best gal pals… or a chance to hit a few outlet malls with them), but rarely do you hear about “mancations” or a special vacation aimed totally at guys. Calm down ladies, I know what you are thinking… a mancation—isn’t that what your better half gets every Sunday when he plops in front of the television for a football-a-thon, leaving you to cook, clean and tend to the kids yourself—yes, well, we’ll leave those frustrations for another blog. … Continue reading →

Rubber Band Man

What’s your favorite hobby? Some people like to garden, jog, or read, while others enjoy collecting things. But, according to news reports, an Oregon man may have taken his love for collecting things to a new level. Steve Milton, doesn’t collect stamps, bugs or ceramic cows, it’s rubber bands that make him go wild. And now his passion for collecting the stretchy material has landed him in the national spotlight. Milton’s latest creation is a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His handiwork measures almost 5 feet tall and takes up half his two-car garage. Though it’s not official, various … Continue reading →

The Kindness of Strangers

When I was growing up in Hawaii there was a man who used to walk along the main highway pushing a shopping cart. Everyone in town recognized him because at one time or another they had all driven by him… and his shopping cart. No one seemed to know the man’s real name; rather we just called him “Cart Man.” I thought about him the other day when I read about a similar man, who lives in a suburb not to far from where I currently reside in Wisconsin. Benjamin Steinbach is an 85-year-old man who used his riding lawn … Continue reading →

Evidence: Man

In my last blog I wrote that the world around us is evidence for a Supreme Being. In this blog I want to write about what I consider another type of evidence for God: a specific part of the creation-man. Evolutionists will merely say that man is another animal here on this earth that evolved over millions and millions of years. For them, man is just another branch of the evolutionary tree classified as Homo sapien, simply another type of primate. However, there are many characteristics of man that are not like any other creature on earth. Man has the … Continue reading →