Most of you know that I am not a skilled singer.  I am enthusiastic, and I make a joyful noise to the Lord, but musically speaking, it is definitely a noise.  As my grand father would say “You couldn’t carry a tune if it were in a bucket!”  Consequently there are very few tunes I […]

Earlier this week I learned that a teenage girl recently – like last month – contracted Bubonic plague while on a hunting trip to the Heppner region of Eastern Oregon.   Doctors suspect she was bitten by a flea that was carrying the disease.   Thankfully, due to modern medicine, she is recovering in a Bend hospital […]