I guess I’ve been writing for awhile now! This is something I wrote In November of 1990. I had just turned 18 and was a Senior at Ozark Adventist Academy. I was co-editor for the Mountain Echo, the school newspaper. And when I say school newspaper, it was that…we put addresses on them and actually mailed them! It was the…
Month: November 2016
Learn to Be Content
What a surprise! I walked into the music department of Barnes & Noble. I was met by a whole wall of vinyl records and a turntable. In December of 1955 I bought a portable phonograph. By the time I paid for it I had just enough money to buy one record — Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, the Pathetique. I played it…
Songs We Didn’t Know
I had a curious revelation with the hymnal in my childhood church. The hymnal was called Christ in Song. Believe it not, there were 949 songs. As I thumbed through the pages I found about 30 that I recall singing. Unless, that is, when the pastor chose a song among the 919. Mrs. Brown bravely attempted to play an introduction…