The Lord has blessed me with a wonderful family and plunked me down in the middle of them. Yesterday was a day of being thankful for blessings and my family ranks top, front, and center. Speaking of afterglow, a day like this could be counted as summer’s afterglow, a blending of seasons when nature is getting […]
Nov 25, 2025
A Recipe
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Here it is–only a couple of days before Thanksgiving! The house will be full of the aroma of pumpkin pie, cornbread dressing, and cranberry cheese bread! Then, in a couple of days the family will gather around my mother’s hundred-year old table, thankful for the Lord’s blessings. The biggest blessing of all is family and […]
Nov 22, 2025
Sixty-two Years Ago
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There aren’t too many of us left who actually remember that awful day, November 22, 1963. I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, had been shot. I was standing at the front of a classroom of second graders, […]
Nov 21, 2025
In the Beginning
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Have you ever wondered about the way the earth must have been, just as the Lord made it, before Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of the Garden? It surely was beautiful and peaceful; exciting, yet safe. We still glimpse it in the majesty of mountains, the purity of the first snowfall, love […]
Nov 17, 2025
One Fine Fall Morning
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This morning, as I look out of my front room window (I can’t keep from looking out, because my computer is in front of it) I see that autumn is really pretty far advanced. This old year is nearing the finish mark. The trees, having provided food, shade, and safety to little birds and animals, […]
Nov 13, 2025
A Penny for Your Thoughts
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Something else in our society became obsolete as of yesterday–the penny. As Bob Dylan said, “The times, they are a-changin’.” And, money is changing right along with everything else. Many people have been saving pennies for years–they have jars of pennies, from pennies of times long past, to bright and shiny pennies that look newly-minted. […]
