Here’s a little story from a couple years ago to go with your morning coffee… “HAPPY THANKSGIVING!”It was after dinner, about nap-thirty if you get my drift, when Jubal Blue bellowed across the driveway like he meant to wake up the whole piney woods. I held up my hands, trying to settle him before heContinueContinue reading “Quiet Thanks-Giving”
Category Archives: Life’s Tapestry
Lives Transformed Behind Prison Walls: Ligonier Inside – YouTube
“He brought me here, so that my light might shine.” One man says it in his own words best, in the seven-minute-investment of your time.
Veterans Day Reflection 2025
Before the stories unfold, before battles are fought in pages or fields, there are journeys that test heart, resolve, and endurance. November 11 is Veterans Day, set aside to honor those who have served in the armed forces. The holiday traces its roots to the Armistice that ended World War I at the “11th hour ofContinueContinue reading “Veterans Day Reflection 2025”
Egg Sandwiches, Elementary School, and Timeless Memories
There was a time when joy came in the form of an egg sandwich. My friend Alan used to bring them to school, still warm from his mother’s kitchen, wrapped with care inside a reused plastic bread bag. When he peeled it open, the smell hit first: that mix of fried egg, hot oil, andContinueContinue reading “Egg Sandwiches, Elementary School, and Timeless Memories”
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
On a cold November night fifty years ago, a massive freighter vanished beneath the waves of Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting ballad captures the storm, the ship, and the 29 men lost on this day in 1975: an enduring story of courage, nature’s power, and memory that refuses to fade. August of 1976 I wasContinueContinue reading “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Veni. Vidi. Scripsi. 