Ray and I went out of town briefly over the weekend. We got to enjoy hearing two of our grandchildren sing in a concert. Before we left on Friday morning, we ran by Notgrass History headquarters. Right after we got there, our team member Josh told us the good news that had just been announced in ... View Post
People of Honor Who Honor Others
Ray and I recently listened to an interview with best selling, Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough. His subject was his biography of founding father and second president, John Adams. Adams is certainly not the best known of our founding fathers. His story has been overshadowed by ... View Post
At the Root of How Children Should Be Educated
Several years ago our family sat around the dining room table visiting with a longtime friend. She has been an enthusiastic supporter of our family business since day one, which is soon to be 23 years ago. Our friend is now a retired public school teacher. However, at the time, she was still ... View Post
Be Quiet! Speak Up!
I am amazed at how our daughter who is the homeschooling mama of five children eleven and under finds time to accomplish the many, many things she accomplishes. I so admire that ability. I have long known that time management is not one of my gifts. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 instructs us that there is ... View Post
The Calm After the Storm
Yesterday afternoon I drove half an hour to Cookeville to do some errands. One stop was a paint store where I purchased a couple of sample quarts. I arrived during the last hour before closing time. I enjoyed a friendly conversation with one of the two shopkeepers on duty while he went the extra ... View Post
From Childhood You Have Known . . .
In the early 1970s, the minister at the church where I grew up blessed me with his Biblical sermons. Now his widow blesses me with her kind emails. Yesterday she told me that her first grade public school teacher had her and her class memorize Psalm 100 and Psalm 23. "They have blessed my entire ... View Post
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