Happy Mother’s Day Weekend! Many may not be aware that the holiday originated in a small Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia. It was 1876, and the nation still mourned the Civil War dead. While teaching a Memorial Day lesson, Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis thought of mothers who had lost their sons. She prayed that […]

Tomorrow, the first Saturday in May, is of course, the running of the 149th Kentucky Derby.  As a Kentucky native, I believe that should be a national holiday in the calendar!  A woman at the Derby sat by herself in the front row.  After a couple races, the man sitting behind her asked, “I noticed the […]