Carrie Clark lost her cat, Galena, last month. She and her husband live in Utah, where the cat seemed to disappear. Four weeks later, she got a call from a veterinarian 700 miles away in Southern California. Amazon dropped the cat off with them. Yes, Amazon!

“I need a better work-life balance.”

My response: “You mean work isn’t life?”

For all of human history, work was life. Consider the Law of the Sabbath: “Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God” (Exodus 20:9-10 ESV).

Whoa! A work/time-off ratio of 6-1? What about the 5-day workweek?

The minimum lethal dose of botulism bacillus is .00003 micrograms per kilogram of body weight. That's like a mosquito derailing a 100-mile long freight train! It was an inexpensive O-ring that took down the Space Shuttle, Challenger. And you know how your whole body can be affected by a slight pain in a key area, such as a toe or heel.

Little things often cause the greatest damage. But the reverse is also true. It’s the little things that make life most enjoyable.

My grandson was happily pushing his truck along our kitchen floor and I was enjoying watching him. He suddenly stopped, looked at the ground in front of him, and froze, with a concerned look on his face.

“What’s the matter, bud?”

He just pointed and let out a grumpy whine.

I went over and looked closely. It was a tiny ant that I could barely see.

I stepped on it. He looked again, then went on playing with his truck.

So concerned over a tiny, harmless thing.

I was saddened to watch a YouTube video last night of an airplane crash that killed the pilot and his 3 passengers. It caught my eye because it was the same airplane I fly: Piper Lance.

The pilot took off at night over the water, where there was no discernible horizon. Somatogravic illusion is a common sensation pilots get when they lose visual reference to the ground and sky.

A few years ago, Linda and I took our camper up north. It’s important to level the camper when parked at a campsite, or you’ll end up with all kinds of problems. I normally use a small but reliable level that I place on the floor. I had recently picked up a new one that was longer, larger and easier to read. But after leveling the camper, Linda and I went inside and we felt like we were walking uphill. I put the new level on the floor and the bubble was in the middle. I put my old level on the floor and it was so far off that the bubble wasn’t even visible.