Posts Tagged ‘mark's remarks’

It happened, even with my brother and I.  We’d be at our grandparents or someone else’s house. Our parents would come to pick us up, and we’d get into a…

One thing I think about, especially on early summer mornings, is wash day at my grandma’s house.  It was always on Monday, and there was a system she had. If…

I’m pretty late to the game on a lot of stuff.   I had heard people talking about noise machines and how they used “white noise” while they worked or…

While I was in college, I lived in my own apartment.  By the time I got to college, I had already been to junior college for a couple of years…

Back in school, there were very few days that I didn’t get in trouble for talking too much. I’m pretty sure my teachers mentioned that I visited too much in…

When I start thinking about how disrespectful and silly kids can be at school, and when I get to the almost nth degree of crazy, I think the Lord whispers…

When you read this, I will have completed my 33rd year of teaching.  Maybe not a big deal to you, but dang.   Time seems to have gone by at…

I was born in 1967, the same year Carol Burnett’s television show went on the air.  So you could say I sort of grew up watching her.  I remember being…

I was having a great conversation with a group of folks the other day. Some were retired and some were close to retiring.   The truths spoken at this meeting…

Our hospital in my hometown of Fairfield has been around for a long time.  It was always a mysterious building to me when I was little, mostly because I was…

My hometown of Fairfield has a radio station called WFIW, which has been in our community since the early 1950s.   At one time, it had local announcers who actually…

People have been “hounding” me to tell you all our dog story from several weeks ago. Now that we are past the trauma and all ended well, I figure I’m…