Good Work
Learning to work is one of the many lessons we learn from our parents. Both my parents worked hard. Mother took in sewing at home. She was working when I got up and often worked until 9 or 10 at…
Learning to work is one of the many lessons we learn from our parents. Both my parents worked hard. Mother took in sewing at home. She was working when I got up and often worked until 9 or 10 at…
One of the most wonderful things about having Mother here with us since her stroke in mid-June is the sparkle we see when she is watching or interacting with her great-grandchildren. On Wednesday afternoon, our son John, his wife Audra, and…
I decided that even though God made my hair dryer heat up again (see my most recent post), He might not intend for that to be a permanent fix, so I bought a new one. Actually, since hair dryers often…
The best-known American hero of World War I was Alvin C. York from Pall Mall, Tennessee. My parents took my brother and me there to visit his grist mill years ago. Ray and I later took our children. One of…
According to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Home is the nicest word there is.” Pa, Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace moved often and lived in several states, but Pa and Ma gave their girls that secure place called home. When the red-checked…
I learned much from my daddy. He was an intelligent man. I could tell it myself, but I also remember Mother telling me that he was. She was proud of him. He never had an “important” job. He didn’t wear…