The Family Plan
Family is God’s idea. In His perfect plan, every child is born into a family who loves him or her and then each of those family members loves and serves one another for the rest of their lives. What a…
Category Marriages That Last
50 Years Ago Today I Had My First Date with Ray Notgrass
In the spring of 1974, I was living off-campus in a rented room in an old red-brick mansion across the street from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The first floor was furnished with impressive antiques. The lady of…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day. Today I want you to see the precious pin that I wear each Valentine’s Day, but first I want you to know where I got it. From 1972 to 1997, Nashville, Tennessee, was home to the theme…
It’s Been Three Months
Ray’s radiation oncologist told us in October that it takes three months to know the effectiveness of radiation treatments for prostate cancer. That seemed like a long time, but now the time has come. Ray has an appointment at 11…
His Helper
Two of my favorite Little Golden Books are We Help Daddy by Mini Stein and We Help Mommy by Jean Cushman. Both were illustrated by my favorite Little Golden Book illustrator, Eloise Wilkins. In these books, very young children help…
The Tootsie-Wootsie Medley
Ray and I can hardly believe that we’ve been operating the Notgrass Company (now Notgrass History) for 25 years, as of July 1, 2024. Way back when, we and our children used to introduce ourselves to homeschooling groups across Tennessee…