As I mentioned in an earlier post, Andy Griffith’s daughter Dixie and Don Knotts’ daughter Karen participated in the Mayberry ♥ I Love Lucy Days that Ray and I recently attended in Granville, Tennessee. On Saturday evening, we attended a…
Yesterday I mentioned how Mother, my brother Steve, and I spent our Saturday evenings. Daddy wasn’t with us on the first of our Saturday evening errands but he was at our final destination of Boyd’s Market. Saturday was his longest…
Family is God’s idea. In His perfect plan, every child is born into a family who loves him or her and then each of those family members loves and serves one another for the rest of their lives. What a…
Miss Frances was one of my special Sunday School teachers. One of my favorite memories of her classroom was the big wooden sandbox table. With a little imagination, a sandbox became a Middle Eastern landscape. It’s easy to share sandbox…
I believe in childhood. It’s easy to let our children grow up too soon. In fact, I think it is hard not to do that. Resisting the temptation to rush childhood requires many well-thought-out decisions. Even something as simple as…
One of the first country dances Ray and I learned was the popular Scottish dance called Gay Gordons. It’s a circle dance and a mixer, meaning that couples line up like spokes of a wheel around a circle with the…
