Barbara Smith

Mending Broken Fences

Following Micheal Kelly’s invention of wired fencing, Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio was the one who first received a patent for his invention of barbed wire, a zinc coated steel wire fencing, in 1867, then known as ‘thorny wire’. It was not until Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois produced a machine to manufacture […]

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Do Not Insult His Intelligence

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (50.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreOne thing we do too often is speak before we think! An important lesson for us all to learn is that if you do not know anything

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The Greatest Computer

All the components that are used in the modern computer today, were invented in 1833 by Charles Baggage, about one hundred and twenty years before the first ‘modern’ computer ever existed. He produced the concepts for mechanical and analytical engines. However, the computer has evolved and has multiple inventors to thank for various parts of

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Head Scratchers

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (51.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreThere are so many things that just leave us speechless and scratching our heads these days. Good ole horse sense seems to be a thing of the

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Make An Impact

Everything in life, including life itself, requires maintenance. Things break down, and need repairing, sometimes small adjustments are sufficient, and at other times, total overhauls are needed, but deterioration, decay, depreciation, and maintenance are inevitable. My husband and I have a ‘go to’ statement when we discover something in our home, yard, barn, or something

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Keep The Change

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:26 — 49.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreChange is inevitable, but none of us like it very much. However, to be molded into what God wants us to be, we need

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Memorialize It

We have been exposed to so many great musicians and singers in our lifetime and heard the best of the best, that when someone strikes us as subpar, we will poke fun at them. We do not mean to be hateful or hurt anyone, we just feel like our opinion and expertise on the subject

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Your Cage is Open

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:51 — 31.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWe often feel trapped by our own fears, yet it is because we do not step out by faith and realize that the Lord

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Knitted Together

Growing up in South Africa, my folks tried to keep things as American in culture as possible. The culture there was so vastly different from our own, not bad, but different, that they wanted to preserve our heritage as much as they could. Not only was the culture different, but there were also many cultures

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Why is There No Y?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:09 — 43.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreLife does gets messy, and things can get crazy, but God will show up in the good and the bad times with us. He

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