Springfield Today, May 15, 2012
Good Moanin’ Springfieldians, I don’t know if you’ve heard of the supposedly true ghost story from South Carolina. This is how it goes. It supposedly happened a couple of years ago outside a little town in the low country of South Carolina, and while it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it’s real. It’s least [...]
Springfield Today, May 8, 2012
Good Moanin’ Springfieldians, Now that I’m a grandpa I think about these things a little more often and remember when. Let me tell you the moment I felt the full force of parenthood. You know the old nursery rhyme, first came love, then came marriage, then came the discussion of the baby carriage. Of course [...]
Springfield Today, May 1, 2012
Good Moanin’ Springfieldians, Last Wednesday, April 25th, was the 30th anniversary of the first day I stepped behind a pulpit as a pastor and delivered a sermon. Now I, of course, had preached before that time. I had preached in my home church. I had preached in many different classes in college and then in [...]
Springfield Today, April 25, 2012
Good Moanin’ Springfieldians, Either today or Thursday would have been Teri’s mom’s 91st birthday. It’s not that I don’t remember which is the proper date; I just don’t know which is the right date. Mary made her grand entrance into heaven in March of 2009. But we’re not sure which day she was born. You [...]
April 17, 2012
Good Moanin’ Springfieldians, They’re right! They told me it would be this way, and they were right. There’s nothing like it. There’s nothing better. It is great being a dad, but it is grand being a grandfather. They put the “grand” in the word father. Instantly, from the moment I met Connor on Monday, April [...]