“This is how real men have fun!” yelled The Favorite, laughing crazily as he lunged in the shallow, murky, mucky water, trying to get a grip on an amazingly strong fish the size of a wiener dog. Our other two younger grandsons, Lamppost Head and The 747, were doing likewise in the small, ...
I say my friend Bruce Nielsen was an “interesting” person because it would have irritated him. If somehow he is reading this in The Afterlife News, he will be furrowing his brow and clearing his throat to harrumph. Bruce pointedly disapproved of calling someone “interesting.” It ...
I’m showing my friend Cricket how to grow vegetables by giving her two rows in my garden and helping her plant and tend them. I learned as a boy from helping my parents in the garden. Things that seem so simple to me are a complete revelation to her. She was very worried about the ...
I don’t get stressed out. But I did. . . for a little while, before returning to my normal, blissfully ignorant attitude of believing everything will work out fine. Somehow. “It’s always darkest before the dawn,” was one of my mother Ol’ Food’s favorite sayings, and it was waking ...
For LISBON By: DR. BRIAN BROWN Lisbon Nazarene Church There are many reasons why revival has died. First, and most important, many churches do not want a revival. They are extremely happy in the condition they are in. But as I am always watching my church and churches in our ...
I don’t know the name of the girl to whom my Dad proposed marriage before he met my mother. I never heard it, and if either of my sisters did, they’ve forgotten. Most definitely it is not recorded in the family Bible. Whatever became of this ex-fiancee, I wonder? Did she and Dad stay in ...
