CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Big fan of the family road trips. I am hoping you and yours can work that in this summer. Since I just completed one as mentioned in last week’s column, it’s been fun to compare what road travel was like when I was much younger.

Old Glory News

We got some more rain this week, which was nice. Just can't keep the mowers going fast enough to cut the grass and the weeds, but good exercise. Remember the Old Glory Homecoming is this year. This coming weekend is Memorial Day weekend and their will be a lot of folks traveling and visiting.

WRITER'S CORNER

The thing about words is they can cheer you ! or They can bring you down. Believe it or not Words sometimes hurt

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Founding Father James Madison once wrote that democracy without information was “but prologue to a farce or a tragedy,” and he regarded the diffusion of knowledge as “the only guardian of true liberty.

WRITER'S CORNER

Each tear has fallen the pain and suffering has ended Your stay on God's beautiful green earth has ended It's engraved in our hearts and mind our hearts are broken But we can be assured that God will bring us all back together again someday.

2 CENTS WORTH

Let's visit a little while and rest!!!!! Joe and I are getting ready to head to Virginia to see his brother and stay a few days with him, as I told you he's 97 so Joe sure wanted to make this trip this time to see him.

Faces & Places

I picked another story from the fourth-grade reader, copyright 1919 (in case you missed last week’s story). The Husband Who Was to Mind the House By George Webb Dasent Intro: Fathers and mothers both help to make the home, but they do it in different ways.

A Revival Afoot

My friend Danna Larson is a native of rural Iowa. A few years ago, she started a website called “Rural Revival” and her website was one of the first outlets to carry my weekly essays.

BIG BEND BY KAYAK, BIKE OR HIKING BOOTS

When Charlie Angell’s father died, he left ten acres of land and a modest house that eventually ended up being owned by Charlie. The property was fifteen miles west of Presidio. Charlie had a construction business in Florida at the time, but he took some time off to go see what he had acquired.

Two wooden sticks formed my world.

I’ve been a percussionist since I was eight years old. For those who are unfamiliar with the term ... I’m a drummer. A man named Levi Rock handed me a pair of Ludwig 3S laminated drumsticks. Although I didn’t know it at the time, the trajectory of my life was set. He then said, “Hey Bill ...