Grandma's Gleanings
Words and Thoughts from Grandma
When a bacterium or virus becomes capable of spreading widely and rapidly, when the outbreak is of global proportions, a pandemic is declared. While an epidemic remains limited to a city, region, or country, a pandemic spreads beyond those borders, the infection becoming so widespread that several countries are affected concurrently. In March of 2020, …
Life was difficult for the children of the small nation of Israel as they struggled and suffered under the heavy hand of Roman rule. Due to this intense oppression from the Roman Empire, frequent riots and uprising laced daily life. As a result, many influential groups had come into prominence: the Pharisees, who were …
His led a simple, anonymous life, teaching God’s Word to his Sunday school students in his little corner of the world, Detroit, Michigan. In 1854, he would visit a shoe store and witness to an employee, a seventeen-year old boy with little interest in God. That young employee was D.L. Moody, who would go …
Hand bells are unique instruments, capable of a variety of sounds. Players can dampen the sound by way of a gloved finger, play the rim of the bell like a glass of water, produce a strong pop, or staccato sound, by striking the bell on to a padded table, or create a vibrato by …
It wasn’t a trip to Disney World, an exotic cruise, a week at the beach, but it was memorable fun! One tradition we held close to our hearts when our children were little ones was hand-churning ice cream. As youngsters, our children lacked the muscular endurance, patience, and any capacity to understand the chemistry …
This phenomenon has occurred in excess of 190 times over a four-year span in the United States alone. During intense heat waves, steel, the major component of railroad tracks, gets hotter, causing that steel to expand and start to curve, referred to as buckling. In physics, this phenomenon is defined as thermal expansion, the …