RECORDING ORAL HISTORY

Dr. Stephen Sloan is head of Baylor’s Institute for Oral History, recognized as one of the best in the country. Last semester he taught a course on the Vietnam War. “All my students did interviews with Vietnam Veterans.

When it’s okay, not to be okay.

I learned a valuable lesson this week. I traveled to the University of Iowa Hospital for my monthly meeting with my oncologist and digestive health medical team. For those of you unaware, I’m fighting stage 4 stomach cancer.

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.