By Beth Jarvis “Let’s take a selfie!” “How about the steps? What about in front of the car? Or the wall? OK, maybe the steps. No, you can’t see a thing. What about here?” Melissa suggested each option in rapid speed. We hadn’t seen each other in years. Now it was such a gift to […]
By Matt Wilmeth I will never forget stepping into the room to meet my daughter for the first time. While my wife recovered, I became the first person my little girl met after the doctors and nurses who welcomed her into the florescent lit hospital room. As I picked her up, she held onto me […]
By Joyce Long It’s one of my treasured possessions, but I rarely wear it. A gift from my daughter, it’s a one-half inch flattened circle secured by a four-prong rim, now hanging on a nine-inch silver chain. Corrosion has darkened and mashed its engraving. The necklace’s “stone” is actually the smallest, least valuable coin minted […]
By Dr. Doug Redford The Guiding Light was one of many soap operas that have been a part of television history. It’s listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest running television drama in American history, presented on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009. It was also preceded […]
By Jim Eichenberger A story tells of a dissatisfied customer returning a chainsaw to a hardware store. “I was promised that this saw could cut down trees in a fraction of the time that it takes me now. If anything, it takes me longer!” The clerk assumed that the saw was faulty. Carefully he checked […]
