Working with Delight
When Ray and I go for a visit with our son John, he usually tells us about the book he has been reading lately. The topic last weekend was The Americanization of Edward Bok, an autobiography of the man who served as editor of…
When Ray and I go for a visit with our son John, he usually tells us about the book he has been reading lately. The topic last weekend was The Americanization of Edward Bok, an autobiography of the man who served as editor of…
I know it probably seems silly, but Ray and I really prefer to stay on the ground. We are thankful for the times we have flown and what flying has made possible for us to do, but, truth be known, we…
Ray and I are heading back to Tennessee this morning. We have been visiting our son John and his family this weekend with the main purpose of meeting our precious new grandbaby Toby. Needless to say, we were delighted. I…
As the son and daughter-in-law of an Englishwoman, Ray and I think it is pretty cool to remember not only Ray’s birthday on June 15, but also the fact that June 15 is the date of the signing of the Magna Carta. Just yesterday I…
The phrase “Meased to pleet you” was in my head when Ray and I sat down with Mother for supper last night. I asked him, “Did you used to say that?” He smiled in the affirmative. I asked where he…
Ray and I did two webinars yesterday. You should have seen the chaos behind the scenes! We set up for the first one in a room that seemed just right, just where we had set up for another one a few…
Some words are just hard to say: amidst, insists, isthmus, Worcestshire. There is one word that used to be very easy to say when we were toddlers, but can be hard to say when we are all grown up. That word is no.…
Ray and I have enjoyed being folks filling out visitor cards at church this spring while we have traveled to one homeschool convention after another, but we didn’t need to fill out a card yesterday. We visited a church in Richmond whose…
Several years ago when we came to Richmond, Virginia, for the HEAV convention, we visited the Federal Reserve Bank here and spent some time in their visitor center, after which they gave us a little bag of shredded money. That’s…