Author: Dr. Maxwell Rollins

The smell of hay always takes me back to my childhood days of growing up on the family farm. Along with the crops grown on the farm, my father also raised cows. Some of my earliest memories are of walking with Daddy to the barn to feed the cows hay.…

Lighthouses are amazing. The intense light illuminating from a lighthouse’s powerful lens can be seen for many miles. When viewed from land, it is easy to take a lighthouse for granted. However, the purpose of a lighthouse is to shed its light where it is darkest. For hundreds of years,…

For two years I served aboard the John C. Calhoun, a nuclear submarine that patrolled the sea staying submerged for over two months each deployment. One question that friends have invariably asked me through the years is how I survived without access to personal communication to the rest of the…

Christmas time is the season where people decorate their homes, businesses, and towns. It seems that everything from streetlamps to trees receive bows, tinsel, and strings of lights to brighten our eyes with extra holiday spirit. For many families a part of their tree trimming tradition is to place a…