LightGramsJanuary 23, 2025Volume 29, Number 4 A video was recently released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It wasn’t a video designed to entertain as much as to warn. In it they showcase some items that travelers tried to smuggle onboard a flight in 2024. Among the attempted contraband were exotic snakes hidden inside a…
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LightGramsMay 23, 2024Volume 28, Number 13 We cherish photos of loved ones. I have photos of ancestors in various settings, but some of my favorites are of my father working in his garden. Gardening was a passion, and he did it well. Not only was our family fed from his labor, but many friends and…
LightGramsDecember 14, 2023Volume 27, Number 34 At a book sale in Pennsylvania earlier this month a volume was spotted which had been checked out of the Carbondale (PA) Public Library – in 1904. The book, ”The Cruise of the Esmerelda” by Harry Collingwood, was returned to the library. Still in a pocket in the back…
LightGramsOctober 19, 2023Volume 27, Number 28 Years ago, I was officiating a wedding when a phone started ringing. Phones ringing at inappropriate times is a common phenomenon, but this phone was in the groom’s pocket! I’m not sure how much conversation this later prompted between the man and his new bride, but I’ve made it…
LightGramsMay 25, 2023Volume 27, Number 14 Szu Ta Wu was approached by agents at Miami International Airport in March. He was traveling from Nicaragua to his home in Taiwan, and a faint chirping sound was coming from his carry-on bag. When asked to open his bag to be inspected, Wu pulled out a small egg.…
LightGrams March 1, 2018 Volume 22, Number 9 21-year-old Derrick Johnson of Waterbury, Connecticut couldn’t resist. The car in the parking garage proved to be an easy theft. Inside the car he found credit cards, so he helped himself to a meal at Taco Bell and some shopping at Walmart, courtesy of his victim. How…
LightGrams November 17, 2016 Volume 20, Number 37 An incredible story was reported by several news sources earlier this month. An 82-year-old man found the wedding ring he had lost three years earlier. That in itself is not odd, but where he found it was astonishing: It was wrapped around a carrot. The ring was…