Articles by Ray Adler

Grandpa Howard told me a story that when he was a small boy there were two orchards at his own grandfather’s place. In the old orchard only a few trees…

Grandpa Howard was a humble preacher man, although he had great intellect. He also farmed some. He told me the story of a wheat field he had examined. He said…

Grandpa Howard had a family of nine, and I was the youngest grandson of his youngest child. He told me the story of how he came to believe that on…

It was my job as a young man to help rope and wrangle young calves. At one to two weeks old they were amazingly strong. Nub horns would be removed….

Did you have a favorite teacher when you were in high school? Mine was Mr. Shoup. He taught government and often pointed with a stub index finger. When one of…

Mom was the youngest of a family of nine, and I was the next-to-last grandchild. Mom told the following story: On a cold December day in 1899, a young man…

I love to go to auctions. Unfortunately, more things are done online these days. I miss the fellowship, a found treasure, and sometimes a chance to help others. As a…

As a young boy, I loved to dig in the dirt. I wanted to see how deep I could dig, and I wanted to dig a foxhole for our ‘neighborhood’…

My study at Purdue included a brief foray into quantum mechanics. One of the unnerving statements was that the universe is not real. By real, it was meant that objects…