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Junkyard Memories: Salvage Yards and Salvation

I remember when my burdens rolled away; I had carried them for years, night and day. When I sought the blessed Lord, And I took Him at His word, Then at once, all my burdens rolled away. —Minnie A. Steele, 1908 My father’s hands were always covered in black grease from hours spent bent over...

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1968 Family Vacation: Yellowstone National Park

I love to see my friends’ vacation pictures on Facebook. In the years before social media, it was rare to see such pictures — at least in my world. What about yours? I do recall my friend Sandy doing a slideshow of her trip to the Holy Land. That was around 1976. My Sunday School...

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Beautiful St. Patrick’s Day Cookies

I took Sullivan and Bridgette to Ingrid’s Bakery last night for St. Patrick’s Day cookies, cream cheese hamantaschens and Turkish macaroons. I’ve been going to Ingrid’s since I was 19. That was back during the late 1980s when the placed was owned and operated by the...

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Throwback Thursday: Ivywild

Ivywild Elementary School, Colorado Springs In the spring of 1974, I attended Ivywild Elementary School in Colorado Springs. My time there was very brief — maybe two weeks at the most — but the building captured my imagination. Ivywild was built in 1912. Being there was like stepping...

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Looking To Be Saved

This commentary originally aired on KOSU. It was like a scene from the winter of a Russian revolution. Every twig and wire, branch, and street covered in thick layers of ice. It was December 2007, and Oklahoma City was like a statue of frozen roads and lifeless houses. We lost power and were...

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Regrets of My Self-Absorbed Youth

When the whistle caught the night And shook silence from my life As the last train rolled toward the moon… –From Dennis DeYoung and Desert Moon When I was 14, too old to play dolls and too young for old people to realize it, I walked from my house in Southeast Kansas to Zula’s...

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Meet Me In Montauk or Somewhere In Between

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d. –Alexander Pope In early 1999, while doing my best to cope with my impending divorce, I came across a...

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This Is The Way We Were

“This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.” –From Thornton Wilder’s Our Town On Monday, I stood on a steep hill and stared through a stand of sky-high palm trees down upon the San Gabriel and Sycamore valleys. This is the...

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