
Perseverance
It was Thanksgiving. We did not have much, but I didn’t know it. I was 11 about to turn 12. My whole world was my family. I was loved and,… Read more Perseverance →
It was Thanksgiving. We did not have much, but I didn’t know it. I was 11 about to turn 12. My whole world was my family. I was loved and,… Read more Perseverance →
If you dig around in your attic in all the school projects your children have brought home, you will find this cute little creature, the hand-turkey. Chances are that he stayed on… Read more Open Season on Hand Turkeys →
The power of expectations is unquestioned. Every season we see new coaches take over struggling athletic programs with few wins, and in short order, win with the same players who… Read more “My Poor Babies” Syndrome →
I have been wanting to do this blog for a long time. I am not a critic. Don’t intend to be. I am just here to tell you about what… Read more Best Streaming Videos November 20, 2019 →
Carolyn – Cornelius, North Carolina David Michael Dunaway has written an engrossing book of likable, caring, courageous people dealing with the horrors of the Civil War. Dunaway carefully shows the reader… Read more Reviews of Angry Heavens →
My first cousin Liz down in Baldwin County, Alabama, posted this quote today on Facebook, “Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.” Well … amen to… Read more Go Ahead. Disown Me! →
The excerpted letter below, and the attached picture , should remind us not to forget the veterans of our nation’s most brutal war. The Civil War cost the country 620,000 dead as many as all other wars combined. Astoundingly this was 2% of the entire population of the United States. One if four who went to war did not return to their families. The letter is from Jim Lighthizer, President of the American Battlefield Trust. I am a member, I donate as I can to preserved this HALLOWED GROUND. Today… Read more Hallowed Ground →
Back a couple of years or so ago, I dismantled the satellite dish, dug up the pole it was attached to, moved it, painted the pole brown, and put a… Read more Cut That Cord! →