Family Vacation Through a Child’s Eyes
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We had decided to travel to the eastern United States so my family could meet some of the wonderful people I knew when I lived there. From our...
View ArticleDog Costumes and French Horns
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The community musical for the summer was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I had been chosen to play Lord Scrumptious, the candy maker. It wasn’t the...
View ArticleAlways Kindness
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE High school class reunions are always interesting. The women that were trim and beautiful are much heavier. Those of us men who were star...
View ArticleDeveloping an Appreciation for What We Have
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE This last week we were talking about Independence Day in my classes when the conversation took a direction I didn’t expect. Most of the class...
View ArticleSleeping In (or Not)
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My mother is now ninety-one years old, and her life of long days of work is still ingrained into her. I grew up on a dairy farm, and at its...
View ArticleThe Heartache Of Being A Parent
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The doctor took a deep breath before sharing the unwelcome news. “I’m afraid that if you want to save her vision in the one eye, she will have...
View ArticleNever Miss a Date Night
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The Bishop was coming to the church for his weekly Tuesday evening meeting. He saw the normal group of cars pulling into the parking lot....
View ArticleA Scaredy Cat
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Our neighbors’ dog, Rosie, didn’t like cats. In fact, she wasn’t too fond of many things. She had killed more than one batch of our kittens and...
View ArticleBuying Better Raspberries
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My children and I had been busy picking raspberries, enduring the heat of the sun. We finally felt we had enough to fill all of the orders so,...
View ArticleBeing the Best Family
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I used to be Scoutmaster to eighteen boys. I’m not sure what happened in our community, but there were two sets of twins, and almost every...
View ArticleThe Eclipse, New Friends, and Paying it Forward
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We live in the region of the path of totality for the solar eclipse. Everyone in the area talked much of the year about ideas of how to use it...
View ArticleOff Road Bicycling
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We brought our bikes to a stop at the top of the steepest hill in Binghamton, New York. I was breathing hard, but, Evans, the young man with...
View ArticleNever Underestimate the Band Nerd
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Tyson knew what the other band students said about him. They called him a nerd. He did love computers, math, and science. But he also loved...
View ArticlePaying It Backward
My daughter Heather had had a bad day. In fact, the whole week hadn’t been that good. She had started school, and there was a mixup in her classes. By the time she had that straightened out, a few days...
View ArticleConfessions of a Reformed Glutton: Making Room for the Feast
One of the most powerful spiritual lessons I have ever learned began as a physical event. With apologies to my parents, who tried to teach me good manners, I share the gory details of my experience in...
View ArticleLooking on the Heart
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Victor was in trouble again. It seemed that everywhere he went, he was in trouble. Part of the problem was he had been in six high schools in...
View ArticleMountain Climbing Merit Badge
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I was scoutmaster to eighteen boys. They had tried to challenge me at different times, and they had always come out the losers. Once fourteen...
View ArticleKeeping a Promise
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The following is a continuing story from last week’s column. To read the previous article, click here. My eighteen scouts were excited to see...
View ArticleHow to Get the Girl
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My wife, Donna, and I went to a restaurant. A couple came in, and we started visiting with them. We learned the husband’s name was Brian, and...
View ArticleA Halloween Vendetta
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE As I was heading home from church on the Sunday before Halloween, Lenny grabbed me. “Hey, would you like to join Butch, Buster, and me on...
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