Four years after the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt’s northern daddy, who worked tirelessly to make life better for the families of Union soldiers, and his southern mama, who sneaked supplies to the Confederates, did what many wealthy Americans did after…
One summer Sunday after a weekend homeschool convention, Ray and I visited the home church of a couple of mamas we had met at the convention. After church we went out to lunch with them and their families. We folks,…
On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan put on a new blue suit and left the White House for a speaking engagement across town. He didn’t wear a bullet-proof vest that day because his schedule included only a brief time in a situation…
When I walked into the kitchen yesterday morning, I saw a familiar sight. There on the dinette table Mother bought with money she earned at the Aladdin factory, while she waited for me to be born and for Daddy to get…
I don’t know when a presidential election has captured the attention of more of my friends and acquaintances than the one going on right now. As I have told you before, I have been interested in politics since I was about ten…
Ray and I brought home a few small souvenirs from our honeymoon trip to the Chattanooga Choo Choo in 1974. Among them was a reproduction of a campaign poster from the 1924 presidential campaign when Calvin Coolidge ran successfully as the…
