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Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealized past." | —Robertson Davies |

"We are more sensitive because we are more concerned about our past than we are about our future." -Creflo Dollar

PAST A snowstorm in Spain recently brought back memories of that nation's traumatic past. Last year the country removed giant stone letters spelling the slogan "Serve Spain to the Death." The stones on a hillside near a military academy were left over from the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco…

Last year at the Bank of America 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, Mark Martin was roaring out of the pit stop area; but he had his eyes locked on his rearview mirror, watching for cars bearing down on him. He was so focused on his mirror that he didn’t see J. J. Yeley in front of him. The two…

Psychologists have identified a phenomenon related to memory known as the "Zeigarnik effect" - that the brain remembers incomplete tasks and failures far longer than successes or completed activity. When a project is completed successfully, the brain seems to compartmentalize the memory and no longer…

The next time you glance in your rearview mirror, thank woman’s ingenuity. Specifically, you can thank a woman named Dorothy Levitt, a British secretary who shocked conventional society in Edwardian times by becoming a racecar driver. What’s more, she was very good at it, winning race after race. In…

Imagine that you are running in a race, and you’re trying to reach the goal and ultimately win the prize. But as hard as you try you can never get to the finish line because there is a heavy weight tied around one of your legs. You struggle to pull it along, but it slows you down and causes you to be…

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. He asked what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general. The granddad replied, "Well, let me think a minute ... I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods,…

Editor and publisher Elbert Hubbard wrote: A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Successful people forget. They know the past is irrevocable. They’re running a race. They can’t afford to look behind. Their eye is on the finish line. Magnanimous…

Imagine a world without Christmas lights. That would be the world before 1882. Oh, people built bonfires and attached candles to the limbs of their Christmas trees (sometimes burning down the town in the process), but it wasn’t until Edward Johnson, Thomas Edison’s associate, invented electric Christmas…

Diamond loses its stiffness crown to new material 16:22 02 February 2007 A material that is stiffer than diamond has been created by mixing particles of the mineral barium titanate and molten tin. Diamond was previously the stiffest material known. The new material was made by a team from Washington…

Eleven Requests from People with Alzheimer’s Please… 1. Be patient with me. My brain disease is beyond my control. 2. Accept me the way I am. I still have something to offer you. 3. Talk with and listen to me. I can’t always answer but I do understand the tone of your voice and your expression of interest.…