OUR MASTER WEAVER

In times past, when creating a Persian rug, a master weaver tightly stretched cloth across a wooden frame.

Barney CargileOctober 21, 2022Comment

GLUING PROBLEMS BACK TOGETHER

Yang Fu, curator of Wu Wei City Museum in China, was transporting a box containing a two-thousand-year-old wooden turtle dove when the bottom fell out of the container.

Barney CargileOctober 14, 2022Comment

A PLACE TO REST

In 2006, a store with an unconventional mission opened at Minnesota’s Mall of America. Creatively called MinneNAPolis,

Barney CargileOctober 7, 2022 Comment

THE ONE JESUS LOVED

“Go away I’m asleep…” “I was hoping for a pyramid…” “Please deactivate my Facebook account…”

Barney CargileSeptember 30, 2022 Comment

A BROKEN TOE

Recently, I broke my big toe. I was repelling down the face of El Capitan in Yosemite

Barney CargileSeptember 23, 2022Comment

KNITTING TOGETHER

Miles McPherson stepped out of his church office one morning and was greeted in the hallway by a member of his church—a six-foot-four, two-hundred-fifty-pound rough-looking guy

Barney CargileSeptember 16, 2022Comment

BREAD SQUEEZING

For three years, Samuel Feldman ventured around Yardley, Pennsylvania, squeezing, smashing and poking bags of bread and cookies.

Barney CargileSeptember 9, 2022Comment

A PUMPKIN IN A JUG

A group of fourth-graders crowded around Mrs. Palmer, our teacher, as she took a hammer and smashed a gallon jug.

Barney CargileSeptember 2, 2022Comment