This week, on June 2nd, marks 42 years since the death of my father back in 1978. And tomorrow, June 5th, is the 42nd anniversary of his funeral and burial. I have written about Dad many times, and how I ...
The last several months have been unlike anything that we have seen in most of our lifetimes. We have socially distanced, washed repeatedly, isolated ourselves in our home and adjusted to all sorts of protocols that have never been forced ...
It's been several months that this country, and most of the world, has been in quarantine. While it's true that some areas of the country have started to open up, we aren't fully back to normal and God only knows ...
Tomorrow is Memorial Day, 2020. In some circles, it is referred to as Decoration Day - and that is what my maternal grandmother used to call it. Back when I was a child, we would decorate our bicycles and ride ...
It was one year ago today that Jill and our grandson, Drew, moved back to Indiana from Oklahoma. Janet and I had assumed that we would no longer have all our children within minutes of our home when Jill made ...
For the past several weeks, our daughter Jill has been suffering with swollen tonsils, This is quite unusual for people her age, but nonetheless, it was a real problem complicated by the restrictions on visiting medical practices, etc. And surgery, ...
It's amazing to me when I consider all the teaching opportunities that we, as adults, have to impact our younger generations. Several days ago, our local car wash opened up again and started doing car interiors. Since it has been ...
Today is Mother's Day, 2020, and it is unlike any Mother's Day that any of us have ever experienced. That's because we are approximately eight weeks into quarantine from the coronavirus and this social isolation is getting kind of old ...
The current pandemic has brought out all sorts of things that most of the population never thought about before our current issues with the coronavirus. We have never really thought of social distancing and the prospect of changing the way ...
Recently, there has been a post circulating on FaceBook about how there are many signs pointing to the "fact" that the coronavirus is somehow scripturally tied to the number forty. For example, the year 2020 can be thought of as ...