by Kevin Burton An 8-year-old Malaysian boy found out the hard way, the importance of a healthy diet. According to multiple reports, the boy went blind suddenly one day while sitting in school. The boy was said to have had a diet consisting of only chicken nuggets, sausages and cookies, iHeart reported. …
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Childfree By Choice: No Kids, No Regrets
by Kevin Burton When Mrs. Groves went around the room asking us fifth graders how many children we wanted to have when we grew up, my answer was two, three or at the most four. This was part of sex education class. Well, you really shouldn’t hold a person to anything they say …
Latter-Day David Saves Sister With Slingshot
by Kevin Burton So now you know two stories involving a slingshot. And two extraordinary stories they are. Thirteen-year-old Owen Burns heard his sister screaming earlier this month, then looked out a window to see someone trying to kidnap her. Burns grabbed what he had at hand, what he was familiar with, …
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Don’t Miss The Moments Life Brings You
by Kevin Burton Somewhere between the art of science and the science of art, I dropped the ball and missed a moment. The girls were up from Oklahoma between Christmas and New Years Eve. The girls are our now-ten-year-old granddaughter on my wife’s side and her five-year-old step sister by living arrangement, not …
Tell The Truth (In Love!) About Halloween
by Kevin Burton If you’re looking for proof of societal spiritual blindness, you need look no further than the celebration of Halloween. What is passed off as being a benign, sugar-soaked party for children, has with it much darker elements that are a danger to children and adults alike. But this danger …
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Thoughts On Mothers And Mother’s Day
by Kevin Burton “Your mother!” is the ultimate street putdown because your mother is your ultimate friend. When it doesn’t work out that way for a person, that lack is felt and carried, maybe unexpressed or unacknowledged, but carried nonetheless. If you have somehow overlooked it, today is Mother’s Day. It may …
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