A Christmas tragedy became a Christmas blessing
I’ve been thinking about bygone Christmases, historic and personal. We all have memories of holidays past – some good, some not so happy.
Those old hand-dug wells are still out there
Driving a country road, I passed an old well house. It didn’t look like a wishing well.
Silent night, peaceful night…even in wartime
It was Christmas Eve near the Yser River in Belgium, and the ground was covered in ice and snow.
Her letter changed him … and all of us
Frank was a drunk … a really bad one. He hadn’t always been a heavy drinker but, almost a year earlier, his wife and child had died of typhoid.
Getting ready for the winter on Drew Drive
Well, I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Here on Drew Drive, we certainly did.
The allure of barbed wire and cedar
Out in the country skinny metal fence posts rule pasturelands nowadays.
