Facebook friends are posting photos of their kids and grandkids all decked out for proms at their high schools. These photos are rekindling a 60-year trauma.
During the years of childhood my only acquaintance with proms were news stories of teenagers driving recklessly after proms.
The ...
He is risen!
He is risen indeed. But — Would you believe me if I told you the tomb was empty? I mean really. Would you? Not in the Sunday school answer kind of way. Not because it’s Easter morning and we’ve got lilies and bright colors and eggs filled with confetti.
I mean in your ...
Here are some things I didn’t know before today:
Jerita Nelson loves shoes as much — maybe more — than I do.
AnNyce Kelting Hoff knows that my mother, who was a dear friend of her mother, would have had a cup of coffee front and center with her dessert at the Lenten Luncheon on ...
A convention program many years ago left a lasting impression on me. I have remembered its message all these years since.
The presentation was entitled “You Are Who You Are Because of Where You Were When” — or something similar. Dr. Massey, a professor from a Colorado university, was ...
The best April Fool joke to completely blind side me was pulled off by my reporters at one of the newspapers I edited during the early 1980s.
They were a spunky crew: Two graduates from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; the son of the guy who managed Madison Square Garden; a ...
When I was a kid I enjoyed listening to older folks talk about the changes they had seen during their lifetimes and their first-time experiences. First time driving a tractor, first time seeing an airplane, first time they had electricity on their farm … I enjoyed their stories.
Thinking ...