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A Wild Ride
The following also includes contributions from Steve Ciha. After reading my story about Sandy, a kitten we rescued, I received a letter from Steve Ciha. Steve reads my stories that appear in his...
View ArticleA Date with Grandma
It’s nice to be getting back to normal life again, even though that normal still feels strange. I am still teaching most of my classes online this semester, but I do have the privilege of teaching one...
View ArticleFlowers and Meaning
My mother, my brother, and I were making plans for Memorial Day. I would pick up my mother, and my brother’s family and my family would meet at the cemetery that morning. When we had finished...
View ArticleGetting Old
A sweet, elderly lady that goes to our church approached me after the Sunday meeting was over. Her son was helping her walk down the aisle. The son is almost seventy, so this mother was no spring...
View ArticleA New Perspective on the One Who is Always Late
Trevor came in late, as usual, into my linear algebra class. We were about four weeks into the semester, and he always missed at least the first twenty minutes of class. Then, once he got settled into...
View ArticleAn Unfortunate Spill
I was dating a girl in high school, but I think her family liked me more than she did. Sheila was quite popular, and I was just one of many boys who asked her out. So, one day, when she called and...
View ArticleGetting a Driver’s License
Having been a deputy sheriff for a long time, Ted had learned that the minute he thought he had seen everything, something new came along. For that reason, he was not surprised by what happened in the...
View ArticleThe Prank that Wasn’t
Twelve-year-old Kevin loved to tease his fourteen-year-old sister, Sally. Of course, it helped that she was afraid of any critter that walked, crawled, or slithered. He was forever putting a rubber...
View ArticleTilling Service
I have a big tiller that will rip deep into the ground yet is small enough to load into my pickup. In the springtime, I try to take a few evenings and do some service tilling up garden spots for as...
View ArticleOddball Ways to Start a Religious Conversation
All of us have heard stories how people became interested in the Church for unexpected and even unusual reasons. A friend of mine was walking down the hall of his high school and as he passed a group...
View ArticleChariots of Tire
Hailee loved her job working at the nursing home, but she had one major challenge. That challenge went by the name of Bob. Hailee could handle cleanups, spills, and even the sometimes impatient older...
View ArticleThe Order that Governs Us Even When We Don’t Realize It
Recently, I listened to an account of a woman who had a near-death experience in which she said that she was shown how everything in life was made up of equations and mathematical formulas. I was...
View ArticleThe Hand of Providence
Hannah had worked a long shift at the fast-food restaurant and was ready to get off when a big rush came. Her manager needed her to stay to get through it. She tiredly nodded and kept the drive-up...
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Children and Phone Calls
I think anyone who has had children has had a time when a child has embarrassed them. I know we have. My wife, Donna, had such an experience with one of our sons. She was on a very important phone...
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Children and Grandchildren
It was a Saturday, and I was home from school and work. My wife, Donna, was off to an activity with some other women, so I was taking care of our two-year-old daughter, Celese. She was our only child,...
View ArticleValentine Unknown
My daughter, Elliana, was in her first year of high school when she got to see a Valentine’s Day tradition there firsthand. Students left notes, hearts, or candy where someone they cared about would...
View ArticleCupcakes
Mary and Sally were neighbors and best friends. But sometimes, Mary shook her head at things Sally did. It was, as Mary described her friend, that Sally thought with her heart and not always with her...
View ArticleTogether
Ron and Edna got married very young. They didn’t get much of a honeymoon because Ron owned nine milk cows, and someone had to be there to milk them. And once they got married, Edna joined Ron in the...
View ArticleMajor Misfire
I sat down to read my email on the first day of the winter semester. “Professor Howard,” one of them read. “My name is Shanae, and I’m in your math class. I won’t be there today. I hope you won’t...
View ArticleTogether Again
To read part one of this series, CLICK HERE. Ron and Edna were very young when they got married, but after a bit of a rough start, they did everything together. They especially liked to garden...
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