A 13-hour road trip to make a day trip to Bluffton
My wife and I enjoy travel about as much as Rick Steves, and many of our trips...
As Christmas draws nearer, the birth of the Christ child properly takes center stage
Today is Dec. 19 — six days before Christmas. Somebody wrote something that popped up in my email, saying one in every...
Words of affirmation
Thursday morning I spent some time with our now-retired United Way director, Pamela Beckford. As the current board chair, she and I...
Learning a bit of patience from an ‘old dog’
Whoever said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks must not have spent enough time around a Bernese mountain dog.
Angelkeep Journals: Summer’s first full day, and who to expect
A hearty warm summer welcome from Angelkeep. In case you missed it, yesterday summer began, but today became the first full day...
A new mattress; Farewell Jimmy; Small-town cops
A few odds and ends as we — my wife and I — recover from a wonderful journey only to catch some varied...
Angelkeep Journals: Thankfulness for Silver Spotted Skipper
Angelkeep long declared the dragonfly the official mascot of its location.
Angelpond thrives with many beautiful and busy creatures....
The sovereignty of conscience
When should one’s conscience have the final say in a dilemma? Or must it answer to a higher authority? And if such...
Angelkeep Journals – The next-best natural phenomenon: Brood X
For survivors of the eclipse comes summer’s round two of the supernatural.
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension...
Angekeep Journals: Mourning dove-ing at eye level
Every time a mourning dove landed on the grass below the oil sunflower seed feeders looking for spilled seed, an earlier memory...