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IF I’D ONLY…
Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even had dreams about, going back and starting over…beginning with my Freshman Year in High...
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WHEN THE MOUNTAIN BLEW
It was 43 years ago this week (May 18th, to be exact and hard to believe) that Mount St. Helens erupted. It was a Sunday, early in the morning, I was living in...
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May 17, 2023
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THE HILL
Another “trip around the sun” is coming up: a landmark trip…yes, I have entered MEDICARELAND…and I am literally “feeling” my age. Now that I’m officially on the “other side of...
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May 10, 2023
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MINERS
Nestled in the southern Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina is Cowee Valley in Macon County. Like most valleys, it has gentle slopes which are pastures for grazing livestock....
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May 02, 2023
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Here’s a story from a few years ago: I have a friend, let’s call her, “Dawn”. She and her family don’t live in this town (Anderson, Indiana), they live in...
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April 25, 2023
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A “FRIEND” INDEED
In May, in the year 1889 (10 years prior to the construction of our current sanctuary, and the year construction began on my Brown-Delaware house) one of my “heroes” passed away. His...
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April 18, 2023
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WE ARE SALTY
One of the best things about bacon (and my other addictions: popcorn, Fritos, and crackers) is salt. You can keep your sugar…even chocolate does not have the same appeal as...
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April 12, 2023
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CROSS TRAINING
In my office at church I have a wall filed with crosses. Some are big, some are small, some metal and some wood. Some are hand-made, others a little more industrial....
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April 04, 2023
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DANCE LIKE EVERYONE IS WATCHING
PALM SUNDAY. I have some wonderful memories associated with this day and time. My Dad was the choir director at my home church, for several years, and Palm Sunday evening...
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March 28, 2023
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KEEP YOUR HEAD
Two-hundred-and-thirty years ago, the woman christened Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna, known by her family and friends simply as Antonia, and known by the world as Marie Antoinette, was beheaded in France for...
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