Tom's Minute Messages
Every week, Tom delivers a "Minute Message" on the radio. This is the text of those messages.
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September 1, 2011
Posted Sep 01, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a master at observation and problem solving. What baffled others came easy for him. However, he is best remembered as the captivating author, who in 1887, introduced the world to the fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Did you know that Doyle wrote 56 short ...
August 25, 2011
Posted Aug 25, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Author Sally Koch wrote, “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” Too often we overlook the importance of the small things. In the early 1960s NASA initiated the Mariner program, unmanned space probes to explore neighboring ...
August 19, 2011
Posted Aug 19, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
William Ward wrote, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” Summer is the only season that for me has always had two ending dates. There is the official date in September ...
August 11, 2011
Posted Aug 11, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Jeff Cooper wrote, “Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.” Recently, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reported that August is the most dangerous month on American roads. Because more people travel the ...
August 4, 2011
Posted Aug 04, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Centuries ago the Romans referred to this time of year as the dog days of summer. The fact that July and August are the hottest months of this season in the Northern Hemisphere was somehow attributed to the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, better known as the Dog Star....
July 28, 2011
Posted Jul 28, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
I never cease to be amazed at God’s creation around us; the next time you open your refrigerator door, take out and egg and study it for a moment. Would you believe there are some 10,000 tiny holes in that egg shell? These vital holes allow oxygen to enter and carbon ...
July 21, 2011
Posted Jul 21, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Legendary football coach Pop Warner said, “You play the way you practice.” This week Atlantis will return to earth completing three decades of NASA’s space shuttle program. What you may not know is that 35 years ago America’s first shuttle Enterprise ...
June 23, 2011
Posted Jun 23, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Are you a worrier? Do you stew and fret and bite your nails? Do you occasionally feel like you have a butterfly in your stomach or are you plagued with a whole squadron of them flying in formation all the time? It has been said, “Many of our worries are like small ...
June 16, 2011
Posted Jun 16, 2011 by Tom Ellsworth
Is close enough really good enough? After all, almost only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and Chicago politics. Whatever happened to the virtue of giving one hundred percent? Is striving for almost truly a noble goal? Most who believe close enough is good enough would ...