Simple Faith: Four Funerals in Four Weeks

Simple Faith: Four Funerals in Four Weeks

  Mom regularly hiked the hillsides of our 28 acre farm gathering wild flowers and herbs like Golden Rod and Wild Heather, anything with color value. She consistently prepared fresh cut bouquets for our kitchen table. On special occasions, like funerals and...
Simple Faith: One, Two, Three Strikes

Simple Faith: One, Two, Three Strikes

Older brothers become heroes and role models whether you want them to or not. It’s not a choice you make. You don’t wake up one morning and say, “Hey, my big brother is a cool guy, I’m gonna be just like him!” Nope. Like that funky, strange smelling corduroy coat,...
Simple Faith: Rock & Roll Created the Teenager

Simple Faith: Rock & Roll Created the Teenager

I suspect there are many things about High School in the 1950’s that isn’t all that different from high school today. Then, just as now, you got up way too early, drug a comb through your hair and boarded a rumbling school bus only to be dumped onto the high school...