Write By A Stone

Agreements are made repeatedly. My wife and I agreed to marry. We agreed to the several moves we have made during our forty-two years of marriage. We agreed to build a retirement home. We agreed to help build a house for a family in Mexico over the 2021 Labor Day...

Doing research for a writing project can uncover many interesting rabbit trails that are best left alone for another time. However, one rabbit trail introduced me to a portion of Baltimore’s Jewish history that related to two themes that I am interested in. The first...

US. Highway 98 is still under construction in the Destin-Miramar Beach area of the Florida Panhandle. I moved to this area in March 2018 after the construction started. Much of the construction is completed, but there is a long portion that is still under...

Today I visited the marketplace to buy food and while there I caught up on news with a former coworker. Marketplaces serve many purposes. Identifying our reasons for using marketplaces discloses the type of people we are going to be in marketplaces. Marketplaces are...

Memorial Weekend 2021 raised my mind and heart to a new level. The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall visited Santa Rosa Beach. I joined other people in setting up the Wall and taking it down. The Wall was open to the public 24/7 from Friday until Tuesday morning. My...

My wife told me that Valentine’s Day is every day. She is an astute thinker, so I am going to try to be like her and declare that Every day is Mother’s and Father’s Day. Yes, I know, I have combined the two special days. Someone might think that this detracts from...

The approaching asteroid Apophis has a new timeline that gives us earthlings about 100 years to party, build indestructible caves, or live expectantly of a new world.[1] The impact of an asteroid on the earth makes most people think about the end of life as we know it...

Please join me on a brief historical excursion that looks and feels like our contemporary pandemic. I am researching an ancestor’s journey in 1898 to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. This great-great uncle, twenty-five-year-old George E. Stone, made the journey to begin...

I thought I was reading today’s headlines during my recent evening Bible reading. Jeremiah’s prophecies in chapters 28 and 29 contain many references to prophesying lies, speaking lies, and believing a lie. The other correlation to today’s news in these chapters is...

Having a purpose for going from 2020 to 2021 is the pressing challenge for all of us. We want the passing year to pass and the New Year to be brand spanking new.  It doesn’t happen by simply wishing it, and a lot of people are too tired to make 2021 the best year...