The President is dead I always remember the day and the times. But the times seem more relevant recently. I’m certainly a different person than I was as a 18-year-old just starting to college in the midst of a tumultuous time — the 1960s. Those years shaped some my beliefs as the result of political…
November 2025
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Home Schooling Before There Was Home Schooling Seems quaint now, but my family lived in a part of rural America in the early 1950s where one-room school houses weren’t still common but they still existed. Bell Victory, situated on the outskirts of Springfield, Missouri, was one of the remaining ones. It stood on a stone…
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Letters From the Old Hyde Place Uncle Lon was what everyone called a tough old bird. As I was told as a child, he was made up in some high percentage of Cherokee Indian. I have no idea whether that is true either in terms of percentage or tribe, but I do genuinely believe it…
