The Snow Challenge
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Eight fourteen-your-old boys, two leaders, and six snowmobiles—what could possibly go wrong? I was one of the fourteen-year-olds, and it was...
View ArticleRevenge and Refried Beans
My daughter, Celese, worked at a taco establishment. One of the things that annoyed her most was when boys came in and flirted in a crude way. Unfortunately, just such a group of boys had started...
View ArticleA Timeout
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My wife, Donna, and I were out buying items for our children and grandchildren when we ran into an old friend in the Valentine aisle at the...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Problems
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I was almost seventeen, and the Valentine’s Day girls-choice dance was to be my first date. I had not yet been on a date, because when it...
View ArticleVehicular Break-in
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE It had been a long day of work, and it was late and dark on a winter evening, when I left my office. When I got to my little pickup, I found...
View ArticleThe Garden Plot
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Jenny was a farm girl living in a big city. She heard about an organization that allowed people to have a small garden plot for a nominal...
View ArticleThe Skunk Skin
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE What does a person do with the skin of a skunk? Well, Rick decided that it might make a piece to use for a practical joke. He placed it on his...
View ArticleA Check We Can’t Cash
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE One of the jobs that I have as Scoutmaster is to help teach the boys about serving others. Winter is good for that. There are always people...
View ArticleNew Technology
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cell phones were new, and the university made me carry one because I was the director of internet systems. They wanted to be able to get hold...
View ArticleThe Ultimatum
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My wife and my children are all very talented. They all play the piano, and most play multiple other instruments. My musical talent is limited...
View ArticleA Change in Personality
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My roommate, David, was dating a girl named Annie. She was beautiful, with blonde hair that hung down past her shoulders, and she had big...
View ArticleA Happy Dog
My two-year-old granddaughter, Hannah, loves animals. When she comes to our house and I take her for a walk, we have to stop and pet every cat or dog that she sees. Hannah especially loves to go out...
View ArticleTeaching Scouts
One of my scouts came into camp, shaking his head. “You know that troop next to us? I don’t think they know anything.” “What do you mean?” I asked. “Oh, I don’t know,” my scout replied. “It’s just...
View ArticleNot All Fun and Games
Steven, the scoutmaster of a new troop at scout camp, had a lot to learn about scouting. It’s true, at the campfire program where all the troops gathered for the evening program, his troop always wore...
View ArticleAn Unforgettable Lesson in Scouting
Because the boys in my troop liked to stay at the farthest camp out in the woods, it wasn’t uncommon for us to have problems with bears wandering into our camp. One night a bear came in search of...
View ArticleAn Important Lesson in Scouting
Because Steven, a scoutmaster from another troop, had let his boys tie up what they thought was an orphaned bear cub, their troop got in big trouble. After its mother tore up their camp, they were...
View ArticleBeing Treated Right
Jan worked at a fast-food restaurant. Most of the workers were like her—college students with very little money, trying to make ends meet. She didn’t mind the long hours and hard work. Most of the...
View ArticleGoing Back for Sandy
There are world-famous sand dunes near where we live. Though they are about a mile away, on Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends, the amount of noise late into the night is so loud we have to close our...
View ArticleA Fair Deal
Ken took his seven-year-old grandson, David, to the fair. It was a big fair, and there were lots of things to see and do. There were the animal barns, the homemaking displays, and, of course, the...
View ArticleA Cow Explained
A friend of ours came to visit. She had two little girls. Susan was five, and Tiffany was three. I enjoyed these two children. They were both cute and smart. But the things I enjoyed the most were that...
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