Last summer , I drove over two thousand miles in 17 days. A trip I’ve done several times before. As I planned my return, I mapped a different route from OKC to Denver, but circumstances sent me back to boring, flat land I35 to I70 across Kansas. It was the same scenery; the same gas…
Several weeks ago I spent a Sunday evening watching the “ legacy celebration” of Dr. Charles Stanley. I was not an astute follower of Charles Stanley but I am familiar with him. I don’t know why I turned it on, I just felt drawn to it. How glad I am that I did. The service…
In 1942 (no I wasn’t born yet) Georges Duplaix was the head of one of the first author and illustrator groups in America called Artists and Writers Guild. They were partners with Simon & Schuster publishing. Children’ Books of that day were not for children. The volumes were large pieces of writing much too difficult…
What book made you a reader? My friend, Amy Young, (https://www.messymiddle.com) is an encyclopedia of helps for writers of all abilities. More importantly, she is a woman of God with messages for people of all beliefs. She’s a former missionary who heads up a ministry for multi-cultural workers. We joke that I am NOT her…
Twenty two years ago I sat in a Sunday Morning service in my home church and moaned when a guest speaker was announced. It softened the blow that I was familiar with him, he had been at my college for a brief time and was now from Orange County, California with some ministry to share. …
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, I’d like to finish with the Woman who led me to the Lord. …
Angeline Tucker is not a name most of you will recognize. I never knew her well although I did meet her in my early twenties. Her daughter and I taught together my first year of teaching. I knew her story, but we spoke of it only once. In the early 60’s, Sister Tucker, her husband…
March is National Women’s History Month. Talk shows and news reports will feature women whom society considers worth of remembrance. They will feature artists who have produced great works of all kinds of arts. They will report on the “first women”, first woman in congress, on supreme court, attend ivy league colleges, and so forth….
