The story of a church builder turned pirate. One of the most mysterious stories, where was I when we studied famous cathedrals in the fourth grade. William arrived in the US from Scotland in 1691. He lived in New York City and was the talk of the Town. He was a handsome young man, lived…
Giving your only son. My granddaughter gave me a book of stories, written by a guy in Alabama, and I find it quite intriguing. He talks about his folks getting a divorce when he was age 9, and he would live with his father one weekend, and his mother the other weekend. He said this…
A couple of things have happened recently that have caused me to reflect on the past. You might say two projects, the first attempt failed, but I still feel like I can pull it off. But the second has a resolution, and it doesn’t seem to be a happy one. Thinking about the time we…
We go to back to the mid 1500’s and we see a man studying late into the night by candlelight. He is working on developing a medicine that will cleanse a person’s body from toxins. His name is Dr Franciscus Sylvius de la Boe, and he is a highly respected Dutch doctor. He did succeed…
I have difficulty with a verse by verse study of the Bible. I like to look for the story it is trying to portray. We might need to read the book several times, perhaps in one sitting. James repeats the main topics. Let’s give this a try and take a look at the entire book…
Last night I heard a new song that is a life-changing. It is a theme I’ve heard before and it carries a message that has happened before and probably will happen again. I am trying a new project. Doesn’t seem to be working out yet, but it will be sometime before I know the outcome.…
This morning, (early January, ’24) my daughter called from her home in Newnan, Georgia. “Can you hear the helicopters overhead?” We could hear the helicopters quite clearly over the phone. Might have been a half dozen just circling. She said it was part of the funeral procession for a Coweta County sheriff killed in the…
One of the greatest comeback stories I have ever heard. At age 24 Frank Winfield’s life was over. A failure in his chosen field, and now he was dying. A neighbor girl was hired to take care of him. She had faith in him and fed him when he was too weak to feed himself.…
“Sparky” was a klutz. Even he would admit that he was a klutz. In fact Sparky kind of owned the fact that he would forever be a klutz. However sparky was an eternal optimist, and believed things would work out in the end. Sparky had been given his nickname, after a cartoon character, a horse…
A story I remember from a reader when I was young. All those stories seemed to have a moral to them, which l’ll let you interpret for yourself. Andre’ was the lazy type. It seemed he could never set his mind to anything. When his father passed, he left Andre’ the value of 100 drachmas…
This is a story that I heard years ago, and I have no reason to believe it isn’t true. Time for a Christmas story so let’s go. It was about mid afternoon on Christmas Eve and mum asked her son Charlie if he’d like to go for a spin. Of course Charlie thought this was…
When our children were young, they each hung a stocking on the mantle, and before we went to bed Christmas eve, we would fill them with an orange, candy, or small toys. When I grew up we had a similar tradition that I always assumed to be German. Our ancestors came from Alsace Lorraine, and…
When I think I about fall I think about selling apples. I’ve sold apples or cider nearly all of my life. Back in the day, seems like nearly everyone had an apple tree or two and were glad to get rid of the apples. At that time there were at least two cider mills where…
