Letters to Daddy

Letters to Daddy

“My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother.  Bind them continually upon your heart.”  Proverbs 6:20 “Mom, what do I put on the envelope?”   Mom looked down at the letter in my hand and the blank envelope.  I had written several...
Boarded Windows

Boarded Windows

I walked passed the house two or three afternoons per week on my way home from after-school activities.  I guess it would be more accurate to say that I ran passed it.  It was a shack of a house with boarded up windows, an old man and two young men nearly always...
A Grateful Heart

A Grateful Heart

I can already smell the turkey roasting in the oven, the stuffing swelling out of it as it bakes.  The banana bread will be cooling on the counter next to the pies and the pumpkin roll.  My good china will be taken out and cleaned, the table covered with plates of...