Putting Down a Deposit
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Fred and Richard were neighbors and best friends. It also happened that each of them had had their first child born at nearly the same...
View ArticleThe Perfect Advantage
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. David was a perfectionist. He always had been. His bedroom had to be perfect. His clothes were aligned in the drawers. His books on the...
View ArticleGood Pay
Just before school let out for the summer, a middle school teacher asked if I would be willing to speak to her class. I love to visit with young people and happily accepted. “Would you mind bringing...
View ArticleSnakes and Pranks
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Daniel was twelve, and he loved to tease his fourteen-year-old sister, Sally. It helped that she was afraid of any critter that walked,...
View ArticleGetting a Driver’s License
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Ted had been a deputy sheriff for a long time, and he had learned that the minute he thought he had seen everything, something new came...
View ArticleThe Happiest Man On Earth
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. My daughter, Trissa, is a band and choir teacher for a small school district in Idaho. She and her students had worked hard, and they had...
View ArticleA Fan Club of One
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. We were at a community reception for donors of the college arts programs. The reception was previous to a big summer concert. I was...
View ArticleA Parking Plot
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Mr. B. was a drivers’ education teacher and sometimes his attitude about certain things with regard to driving, annoyed him enough that it...
View ArticleSoftball Mentality
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. My wife called me in from the garden for what she said sounded like an urgent phone call. When I said hello I heard the voice of my...
View ArticleGirls’ Camp Bears
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I took my daughter to meet the girls she was heading off with to girls’ camp. It was early in the morning, and I stayed for a short time...
View ArticleDon’t Mess With Mom
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Mary was proud of her son, David. He was nineteen and at that time in life when most young men would be working to earn money, buy cars, and...
View ArticleLife Outside the Prison Walls
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE John had been going to the prison every week for six years to teach a Sunday School lesson to the men who wanted to attend. Every week for...
View ArticleFormer Member of a Band
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We were in a theatre production, and the men’s changing room was nothing but an old converted closet. We were stuffed tight in there, which...
View ArticleWhat Real Families and French Cooking Have in Common
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE How many of you are from a family? Raise your hands so I can count: 1-2- 3- 25- 7,404,976,783 . . . Wow! Who knew? Also, who knew I had that...
View ArticleFeeling My Age
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I finished a goal that I wrote about in one of my stories ten years ago. The goal was that I would take each of my ten children on the hike...
View ArticleThe Mechanics Test
Mr. Johns finished passing out the exams and turned to face the class. “Gentlemen, you will see that your scores are very disappointing. I expected much better from you than this.” David raised his...
View ArticleA Technology-Obsessed World
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I had been grading papers all day, and I was exhausted. As the work day ended and I left my office, it felt good to step out into the fresh...
View ArticleThe Dating Coach
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The guys I hung out with were all gathered around the cafeteria table eating lunch when the topic of girls came up. That, of course, was not...
View ArticleThe Dating Coach Continued
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The following is part two of a story. To see part one, click here. Rod considered himself the best ladies’ man in the high school, and he...
View ArticleA Bear Scare
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Rick and his family planned one last campout before winter. It was still warm, but the crisp evening air warned that winter storms weren’t...
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