Fun-Loving Parents
I’m glad I had parents who took me to my first popular music concert themselves when I was just ten years old. We heard a folk group on a calm and peaceful afternoon at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. I’m…
Category Just for Fun
Jesus Offers Joy
How do you like the WPA poster I chose for this Saturday. I like that happy face. It makes me smile, too. One of the first songs I learned in Sunday School was “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy…
A Poster from Long Ago
Happy Saturday Morning, Mamas. While working on lessons about the Great Depression a while back, I enjoyed seeing dozens of WPA posters. People from many professions found work in the Works Progress Administration, including artists. For the next several Saturdays,…
Capturing the Moment
I recently wrote about the lyrics that popped into Ray’s head while he was out in the cold finishing up his to-do list. He was glad this his chores would “soon be o’er.” We had a pretty little snow on…
The Substitute
Surely every American family has at least a few stories about how a worldwide pandemic has made things different for their family. I like the stories of creative substitutes for things that couldn’t be the way they would have been…
Canned apples, boxed mashed potatoes, and real chickens.
Several years ago, Ray, my brother Steve, and I went out to lunch together in Nashville. Steve suggested a meat and three place in an old part of town. Ray and I had been traveling, so I was ready for…