Man Who Loved Life, Died Hard

Don Spangler, also known as Spanky, retired from Southern California Gas Company in 1998. One of the first things he did was to throw out all his suits ...

Graffiti Artist Dies Leaving His Mark

Peter Berry wanted to leave a mark. So he became a graffiti artist—a tagger—with the nickname Kiser. He was gifted, by all accounts, and was ...

Firefighter Red Adair on Hell

Paul "Red" Adair was the oil field firefighter first made famous by a 1968 John Wayne movie The Hellfighters. After the first Gulf War, he led ...

Dead Man Lacked Community

In the September 20, 2004, issue of MacLean's magazine, Lianne George recounts this tragic story:

One November day in 2002, Jim Sulkers, a 53-year-old ...

"Master and Commander": One Dies So Others May Live

In Master and Commander, Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) is the commander of the British ship H.M.S. Surprise. When his ship is ...

Rodin Was Thinking About Hell

A friend encouraged author Neil Cole to tour the Rodin museum while in France. Reflecting on Rodin's most famous work, Cole writes,

Rodin was a French ...

Child Pronounced Dead, Lives

Nurse Mary Zollinger was on duty at Madison Memorial Hospital in Boise, Idaho, when the emergency medical personnel brought in little Logan Pinto's ...

William Carey's Savior His Greatest Concern

William Carey was the great missionary pioneer to India. When he was on his deathbed, he was visited by a young man named Alexander Duff who greatly admired ...

James Thurber on Lessons to Learn Before Dying

Humorist James Thurber wrote:

"All human beings should try to learn, before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."

Letter from Slain Missionary

This letter was written by Southern Baptist Missionary to Iraq, Karen Watson, prior to leaving for the Middle East. The letter was dated March 7, 2003. ...