Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash A student could start band in fifth grade when I was in grade school. I’m not sure why it was decided that I should be in the band, but the decision was made, and I followed along. At some point during the first quarter of school, we were invited […]
Category Archives: New Adventures!
The Case of the Missing Lips!
The other day I was getting ready to wash my face and, when I looked into the mirror, I was horrified by the vision looking back at me! In my mind, when I am cleaned up for the day and dressed up in my best, I look just like Meryl Streep! The resemblance is amazing […]
Time
Photo by Oliver Hale on Unsplash Time is certainly an oddity, isn’t it! Two minutes ago, I was starting the day and thinking about writing about time and how fluid it can be. It’s now almost 7:00 in the evening a week later! How does that happen? I read once that there are two types […]
Teachers
Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton on Unsplash The other day, I was getting prepared for a sermon on praying. I looked up the word “prayer” in my dictionary and the first definition I saw was “a person who prays”. Which put a whole new spin on the idea of prayers! The person who prays is a […]
The Last Stand!
Keeping an eye on the offenders! In almost any story, there will come a time when the main character has to take a stand – a time when a line has to be drawn in the sand – a time when the main character is tired of giving way and decides that enough is enough. […]
My Shadow
My road to health and fitness – maybe! I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. by Robert Louis Stevenson I was thinking about this poem earlier this week! Back in the late 1990s, I got on […]
Family Trips
Photo by Sonja Guina on Unsplash I don’t remember many travels before we moved back to Kansas from Tennessee. I remember riding a train from Memphis to Dodge City to visit Mom’s family. I remember that we were in a sleeper car that had several bunk beds curtained off and we were in an upper […]
Where to Live!
I got a box of Wordsmith cards that are designed to help with writer’s block, and I decided to try one out. If you don’t know what to write about, you pull out a card that has a question on it and you answer the question. The card I pulled out asked, “Where would you […]
Gillette Reunions
My mom’s family had reunions every year at the same time so that we could make sure it was on our calendars. Dad’s family, however, had get-togethers. Dad’s family had one girl and five boys. Grandma Gillette used to say that she grew up on a farm and married a teacher so she could get […]
Dodge City
Mom grew up in Dodge City with her folks and older brother. Both siblings left town for a while before coming back to the area. Uncle Lee and his family moved back to Dodge and Mom and our family moved to Great Bend. Once we moved back to Kansas, we spent many weekends in Dodge. […]