In addition to the excitement of receiving America the Beautiful yesterday, we had our first play practice for “America!” It was a full day. “America!” is a production of our local Homeschool Dramatic Society. This year for the first time,…
Once, when I was a girl, Mother and I got all dressed up and walked across the street to a wedding held at our church building. Like a proper little girl in the 1960s, I wore white gloves. When I…
Ray and I had lunch yesterday on the patio of our town’s new Mexican restaurant. Our server introduced himself as Abel and then said playfully that thankfully he doesn’t have a brother named Cain. I later asked him if he…
Twelve-year-old Charles Leland Boyd, his parents, and his younger siblings, Dorothy Sue and Ronnie, were living on Turner Street in Ashland City, Tennessee, in the summer of 1944. That was the summer that American soldiers and other Allied troops stormed…
I have prayed for many things in my life, but to the best of my recollection, this summer is the first time that I have prayed for paper. Yesterday I learned that the paper to print America the Beautiful has…
Two hundred and forty-five years ago, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to discuss what to do about the oppressive policies of the British government. In June 1776, they made the difficult decision to break away from Great Britain. They…
