October 2025

  • Letters From the Old Hyde Place You may have heard this said before by other sons, but my mom, Lena Mae Renfro, was the best woman God ever put on this earth. I can only imagine what was going through her head when at the age of 45 she told her doctor she was pregnant.…

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  • Letters From the Old Hyde Place If I ask you to conger up an image of an old country barn and if you have a colorful imagination but have never lived on a farm, you would probably bring forth the image of a large, impressive building painted red with white trim and with a hayloft…

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  • Letters from the Old Hyde Place I’ve thought a lot about how to tell this story, even about why to tell it. And as I tell it, it always seems to unfold in slow motion. Looking back, I was just too young to remember what took place. Yet I do remember, or I have animated…

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