Chapter and Verse

My siblings and I recently held our annual reunion.  At these reunions, one of the obligatory conversational paths is the one that heads down memory lane to our childhood days.  Stories of brotherly bullying (I am oldest – I plead the fifth), sisterly spoiling (the youngest was the first and only female!) and other growing-up […]

Nostalgia

HOW’S THIS FOR NOSTALGIA?   It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?    Nobody owned a purebred dog?    When a quarter was a decent allowance? And made with real Silver!    You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?  Made with real copper! Looking to see if it was a 1943 penny! Your […]

Twain, Teams, and Turfs

We recently made passing reference to one of Mark Twain’s comments that he never let his schooling interfere with his education.  We also briefly mentioned the parts of our educations that are also supplied by parents, religion, and society. The roles that schools, parents, religion, and society play on our winding paths into adulthood vary […]