The Roses on the Hillside
When Ray and I pulled up to Dollar General on Sunday night, I noticed these pretty roses on the hillside at the back of the parking lot the store shares with a small office strip. I don’t know if these…
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Mended Hearts
Mended Hearts® is a peer-support group for patients and their families. A cardiologist founded the organization in 1951. The chapter in nearby Cookeville, Tennessee, provides churches (and other organizations as well, I think) free Automated External Defibrillators when at least…
Seeing the Blessings in Hard Things
After I wrote the first post about the Tennessee Maneuvers last week, a friend and daily blog reader wrote to me about her own memories of the maneuvers. While she was growing up during World War II in Springfield, Tennessee,…
Seizing the Moment
When I asked Ray what he particularly enjoyed about the Tennessee Maneuvers Remembered festival, he mentioned those who shared their childhood memories of the experience. They were a highlight for me, too. Here are more stories from the 90-year-old woman…
Generations Working and Playing Together
God planned for children to be born into families composed of people of different ages. Since God made us that way, it must be okay that children spend time with people who are different ages than they are. When we…
Mothers and Sweethearts
Our family has long been fascinated by the history of the home front during World War II. It was the theme of the second of Mary Evelyn’s Homeschool Dramatic Society plays, Faith is the Victory, back in 2000. Wow! That…