WEEDS OF YESTERDAY ARE THE TREASURES OF TOMORROW – Home Country
Days like this, said Doc, a guy has to get out and get his yard work done early, before it
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Days like this, said Doc, a guy has to get out and get his yard work done early, before it
Read MoreHearCare Audiology presents Play It By Ear-a year-long campaign designed to make your day a little brighter with free pop
Read MoreThis month I continue my interview with Shawn Ambrose, a homeschooling father and member of the Home School Legal Defense
Read MoreAs I watched the veterans ride by on a big trailer in the Fourth of July parade, I was reminded
Read MoreThe Barna Group is a long-tenured research organization that tracks “spiritual indicators” and the role of faith within American culture.
Read MoreThe thunderstorms keep coming, the grass keeps growing, the garden is saturated, and still it rains. Some of the vegetables
Read MoreAbout a month ago Beth Conway contacts me asking if I could meet with her and her father John to
Read MoreWe all watched as the flag came by. It was the first thing in the parade, of course. Great big
Read MoreJune’s blue moon shone last night, although at 5 o’clock this morning it was full and orange. Matthew called me
Read MoreA happy and glorious Independence Day to all! It hardly seems possible: 39 years have passed since America’s bicentennial celebration.
Read MoreMy youngest son loves to go to the “Confession Stand.” He doesn’t want to make an appointment with the local
Read MoreBefore I moved to Indiana for graduate school at Anderson University, I grew up in none other than West Monroe,
Read MoreWe were flying out of the Andes Mountains of Peru heading for Lima. Our airplane looked like it had seen
Read MoreSummertime weather simmers along as daisies bloom and leaves grow green and full on the trees. The hills surround and
Read MoreIt’s been nearly a month since The News Sentinel featured the front page article: ‘Unique’ quilt caused shop owner to
Read MoreI’ve discovered the wonderful world of petty mail-order junk. I love it. A computer is a grand tool for opening
Read MoreRecently I was contacted by Shawn Ambrose, a homeschooling father and member of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA),
Read MoreMore than a decade ago, former Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court installed a massive granite monument
Read MoreI wandered today to the hill, MaggieTo watch the scene belowThe creek and the rusty old mill, MaggieWhere we sat
Read MoreAs the month of June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month, it seems fitting to shine the spotlight on the
Read MoreIt is the heat that defines us this time of year. Defines our sweaty days with the brassy skies and
Read MoreDavid was an incredibly brilliant student, but sometimes that was almost his downfall. For example, my students were supposed to
Read MoreA yellow butterfly hovers over the Persian lilac bush, with its purple blooms swaying in the breeze. Purple and yellow
Read MoreOn May 25 the Annual Waynedale Memorial Day parade will wind its way through the streets to the Prairie Grove
Read MoreDelbert’s at it again. You know Delbert McLain, our local chamber of commerce? He’s the guy who wants to bring
Read MoreThose of us with one child often wonder what it is like to homeschool a couple children at once. My
Read MoreThe sun peeped up over Pilot Knob this morning, but was soon obscured by clouds that covered the sky. The
Read MoreForty years! That’s how long it’s been since I graduated in the fourth graduation class of Wayne High School. A
Read MoreSally had been married for seven years, and all she wanted was to be a mother. Only a few months
Read MoreRobins have returned after spending the winter farther south. I hear one or two singing from the trees in our
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