At a recent fundraising event, the speaker rambled on and on.

A master thief planned an attack on the Louvre Museum in Paris.

A police officer stops an elderly man around 2 a.m. and asks where he’s going at such an hour.

Two men were shipwrecked on an island. The minute they reached shore, one of them started yelling, “We’re going to die!

This past spring our 3-year-old son, Benjamin, planted flowers for the first time.

Following our Sunday-morning worship service, I was visiting with my friend Doug Vande Griend, an attorney in Salem, Ore.:

What has made you smile lately?

When my son was younger, we were working on the sounds that different letters make. At one point we worked on days of the week:

A father believed his son was spending too much time playing computer games.

Two dog owners were arguing about whose pet was smarter.

A minister was approached by a congregant who said he was worried about the strange dreams he was having.