Modern Stories of the Way

“A Real Potato Chip” After making my tomato sandwich for the evening, I went to find some real potato chips.  It was hot today, and I sweat out a lot of water, so I was craving something salty.  Even with gator-aide, or the newer Power Aide drinks, sometimes I need some salty potato chips to [...]

“"Going to the Dogs" Saturday is cleaning day at our house, which means I do everything possible to be somewhere else on this day.  Saturdays are excellent for outdoor projects of many kinds, bush hogging pasture, mowing grass, or just generally planning for the next Saturday’s project.  It took me almost two hours this afternoon [...]

“One of These Days” “Do you see that grass near the flower pot near the front steps?”  “Yes, I said.”  Then I replied, “One of these days, when I have time…”  This is when my wife erupted and said, “Why don’t you write a story about that?”  I suppose this is due to her frustration [...]

“A Willys Jeep, 1946 Model CJ-2A” The Willys Jeep, model CJ2A was produced by Willys-Overland from 1945-1949.  A total of 214,760 of this model were produced (per History and Technical Specs, http://www.kaiserwillys.com).  My grandfather owned one of these civilian jeeps, produced at the end of WWII.  He used it as a rural mail carrier as [...]

“When Religion Goes Bad” The other night while sleeping and praying, as I never know for certain whether I am sleeping or praying; it was about 4am and as I was worshiping the Lord and resting in his Holy Presence, in my spirit I saw an Imam sitting in the midst of a group of [...]

“Ben’s Big Burp” Ben related a story which comes out of Marlboro County, SC.  Ben and Hannah were attending Marlboro Academy, Ben was in 9th grade and Hannah in the 6th grade.  Ben reports that a foreign exchange student was leaving their school to go back to France and the school gave a party for [...]

  It had been raining a lot.  I am vacuuming water from the pool using a sump pump connected to a water hose.  Every week since the early February rains, I have taken water out of the pool, and every week I have grumbled about it. I told D,  "we no longer need a pool.  [...]

My dad and my mother had six children, and so for all of us to take a trip to the beach was a big deal.  It took lots of planning, more than a little bit of money and a reliable Ford Station Wagon, with opposing very back seats, which could sit 4 (that’s right) four [...]

Riding from home Saturday evening this past week I came upon a Ford 150 truck pulling a large bass boat.  The black bass boat, a Ranger, was so large the trailer had not two, but four wheels.  I pulled up behind the Ford pulling the bass boat waiting to turn off a local road onto [...]

“A Good Man – Sam Lindsey” Growing up in a stable community meant that almost everyone went to church, often the same church.  The Bowling Green Presbyterian Church, founded in 1917-18 is one such congregation.  Growing up I was one of 103 members of this church, and I was directly related to 100 of the [...]