Monthly Archives: May, 2014

Memories and Rhubarb Bars

♦ May 31, 2014 ♦ 1 Comment

One of my grandfather’s pride and joys was his rhubarb patch. It was an old variety and grew long, wide, sour green stalks with huge leafs. The plants were so beautiful that they grew alongside some of the flowers and fit in perfectly. The only thing Grandpa knew how to make with the rhubarb was …

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A Day at the Polls

♦ May 27, 2014 ♦ 2 Comments

As I write, it is Memorial Day. When I was a child I remember it as “Decoration Day” and my family visited the cemetery and cleaned up the grave sites in our own lots and often planted flowers. That little private cemetery named on a worn, wooden sign still points up a steep hill is …

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“It is Well with my Soul” and the Anna Spafford side of the Story

♦ May 7, 2014 ♦ 2 Comments

Recently I wrote a post about thinking. As I spent some time thinking about the song, my thoughts rabbit trailed off to how Mrs. Spafford accepted the loss of four daughters to the shipwreck disaster in the Atlantic Ocean on November 22, 1873. The ship, French owned, the Ville du Havre, sank in a short …

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The Golden Rule

♦ May 2, 2014 ♦ 1 Comment

Evangelist Wil Rice has delared today “you” day. Here’s why in his own words from the devotional published for today. Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. The Golden Rule Do you realize how …

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