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Jewels From The Word
May 13, 2019
The home where I grew up was across the alley from Bull Creek. Bull Creek was very shallow and lazy creek, so no boats ever floated our section of the creek. Never one time in my life did I see a boat on Bull Creek. Even if someone had tried to float a boat on...
Jewels From The Word
May 6, 2019
My flowers put on quite a show this spring. The roses are trying to take over the backyard flowerbed. The white peonies bloomed first and the deep rose peonies are almost ready to open. Last week, with a thunderstorm imminent, I raced out into the ya...
Jewels From The Word
April 29, 2019
Easter was always my favorite holiday next to Christmas when I was growing up. Besides the excitement of getting a new dress and new shoes for church, it was because we got to see our cousins from Wichita after a long winter apart. Our cousins came home to Vini...
Jewels From The Word
April 22, 2019
They laid Jesus’ dead body in the tomb. Their hopes and dreams for a conquering Messiah to overcome the Roman rulers lay dead, too. So, their hopes all gone, and in fear for their lives, they all hid out. Life would never be the same again, but life wou...
Jewels From The Word
April 15, 2019
Mother’s Day cards show up on store shelves April 1st through Mother’s Day, describing the most wonderful mothers of the world, but what about those mothers who don’t live up to the rosy sentiments on greeting cards? How can we reconcil...
Jewels From The Word
April 8, 2019
Little kids love to sing loudly, heartily, putting their whole body, soul, and spirit into it. They just can't stand still so they do a little jig as they sing. Teach a child the song Jesus Loves Me and he will know it till the day he dies.When they grow up, th...
Jewels From The Word
April 1, 2019
Grandmother’s silver-leaf maple tree fell over on a bright sunny day. There might have been some wind, we weren’t sure. No one was living in her house, because Grandmother had moved to heaven several years before. Grandmother’s backyard w...
Jewels From The Word
March 25, 2019
Mother had a clothes line where she hung clothes to dry. Many times I had to hang clothes up with wooden clothespins when I was a kid, one chore I didn’t really care for. Later on as a young teen, I remember sometimes going to the laundromat by Eddie&rsq...
Jewels From The Word
March 18, 2019
How do you get paid? By the job? By the month? In tips? Once a week? My first job was working after school at the Hotel Vinita Coffee Shop, which I began in the late summer of 1965 just before rodeo week. From then till June, 2003, when I started dr...
Jewels From The Word
March 11, 2019
50 STUDEBAKERA man contacted me a while back by email asking to use a photo of a 1950 Studebaker I have posted on my website as the basis of a water-color painting. He has painted other old vehicles, that "have finished their days on the road and now only serve...
Jewels From The Word
March 3, 2019
When I was a kid, we took dandelion bouquets to our mothers which they graciously received as if they were bouquets of long-stemmed fancy red roses. We took the tiny white blooms from the clover and made them into necklaces that we proudly wore around our ...
Jewels From The Word
February 25, 2019
I started first grade at Riverside Grade School, only four rooms for four grades—1st through 4th. I have sweet memories of Riverside school. Only one block from my home, it was a red brick square building, with a nice playground. We played on teeter-...
