December 15, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, December 15.

This week, in our Christmas series, we’ll focus on stories behind some of our favorite carols. Christmas songs are near and dear to our hearts, particularly the ones that remind us of the reason for the season. And they grow even dearer, when we know the circumstances behind their writing. Here’s a story behind a beloved carol.

December 11, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, December 11.

Our two-week Christmas series continues today. Next week we’ll focus on stories behind some of our favorite carols. Most of these treasured songs are over a century old, some much older than that. But this morning we look at a modern Christmas carol, written in the 20th century.

December 9, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, December 9.

This morning we continue our Christmas series that will feature thoughts on Christmas culture, profiles of Christmas characters, and stories behind Christmas songs. Today’s focus isn’t really a song, but it stands as one of the most famous pieces of Christmas music in history. Today we look at Handel’s “Messiah.”

December 5, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Friday, December 5.

Have you heard of the “Einstein Visa?” It’s intended for foreign nationals who have “extraordinary abilities” in business, science, the arts, sports, education, etc. It provides these extraordinary people with permanent residence status in America. It’s named after the truly extraordinary Albert Einstein.

December 3, 2025 - On December 3, 1966, Luna 8, a spacecraft from Russia, crash landed on the Moon. Just a bit of space trivia. But a reminder, surprising to some, that when the Eagle landed at Tranquility Base in the summer of 1969, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, it wasn’t the first time that a man-made object had touched the lunar surface.