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Native Nations

21 Aug

We arrived in Anchorage last night and headed over to our bed and breakfast. Before our trip, we found a B and B up here that costs less than our usual chain hotel. Our host promised a big breakfast that includes her mother's bread made with her 100-year-old sourdough starter--M-m-m-m. Our cruise ... View Post

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Therold’s Little Opry

11 Aug

On Saturday night Ray and I met some friends at the second Saturday music show performed every month (except December) in our little town. When we first moved here, it was the Little Opry; now it is called Therold's Little Opry, in memory of Therold Richardson. Therold Richardson was an elderly ... View Post

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A Great-Grandmother’s Inspiration

29 Jul

Ray and I had three opportunities to be with people we love this past weekend. We got home last night happy we had decided to do all three. Opportunity One was "Copland to Cash: An American Rhapsody," performed by ten- to twenty-year-olds who had just spent ten days at the Fine Arts Summer Academy ... View Post

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Stepping Down or Stepping Up?

22 Apr

A few years ago our daughter Mary Evelyn led homeschooling students as they presented the play, "The Cross Behind the Curtain." Based on real events from the 1960s, the play told the story of Christians who suffered for their faith behind the Iron Curtain, including people who took the great risk of ... View Post

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Teach Your Sheep

28 Jan

I recently spent several  hours with an old friend. She told me about a child she knows whose mother dropped him off at a friend's house for a couple of hours and picked him up a week later. She told me about a mother she knows who used to get drunk and stay away from home a few days. She told me ... View Post

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Lessons from Norman Rockwell

21 Jan

Every human being who has ever lived has been made in the image of God. Some people show that in a profound way. To me Norman Rockwell was one of them. On Sunday Ray, Mother, and I got to see many of his original paintings in an exhibition called "American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell." I ... View Post

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