After a somber breakfast at Denny's mulling over the overnight death of Muhammad Ali, we packed up and headed home ( Read more... )

Our church and community lost a fine woman over the weekend to cancer ( Read more... )

After several months of slow decline, my grandfather died earlier today at the age of 86.

A WWII veteran, a farmer, a father, a grandfather -- and the owner of a sly sense of humor, as this story revealsVisiting my grandparents while I was growing up, I noticed that they slept in separate bedrooms. So I guess it's fitting that my grandfather is ( Read more... )

I suspect that you are the kind of person who rips a Band-Aid off: There is initial pain (and possible swearing) as your now-healed wound is revealed. You move on, but the memory of the pain lingers ( Read more... )

Charlton Heston, dead at 84

Jack Boyles

He and his family used to live across the fence from us when I was little. (mamallama, you remember Missy, don'cha? Well she's Dr Melissa now ( Read more... )