Watching the second of our two live-streamed services on a recent Sunday morning, one of the speakers at Quentin Road Baptist Church in Lake Zurich […]
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The closing….
Today (Dec 12) is closing day. Closing on the sale of the building that was our business home for 39 years. There were lots of […]
Continue reading“I hope you still feel small”…
On this evening’s (Dec 1) Live Show on The Voice, Rob Cole, one of Reba’s team, sang Lee Ann Womack’s I hope you dance. That […]
Continue readingOn Harvest Crew….
A Grandson and I were headed “up north.” He has lived in Scotland for the last ten years, and he is enrolled in a Scottish […]
Continue readingOld footsteps….
There is a parcel of land NW of Hooker near the Kansas state line, we’ve always called it “up north.“ It was settled by a […]
Continue reading“What will I do when it doesn’t work?”
Back in the middle seventies, a young couple, along with two daughters, left Scotland (her home) for Oklahoma (his home). That was me, my wife […]
Continue readingThe smoking of the pipe…
This text message out of the blue from my good friend Jerry appeared in my inbox. It got me to thinkin.’ Back in the day, […]
Continue readingThe crashing of the waves…
Recently a Scottish friend emailed me his description of a storm on ‘Bervie beach. In the seventies, for a few years, my family and I […]
Continue readingAgainst all odds…
On February 22, 1980, my wife and I sat glued to the TV as a young US Olympic Ice Hockey team, against all odds, defeated […]
Continue readingPatterns for life…
These few words neatly printed on a small tag attached to several paper cutouts in the shape of a dress. They were neatly tied together […]
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