Two days after Christmas I surprised my wife with a post-Christmas present. It had been somewhat of a blue Christmas for her, and I thought my gift would help. So I gave her a rope. “A what?” you incredulously ask. “A rope? Really?” Maybe you’re thinking my gift ranks right up there with Barney Fife …
Twas the night before Christmas… …and nothing happened, at least not much out of the ordinary. The inn in tiny little Bethlehem had no vacancies, and people without a place to stay were surely aggravated with the inn keeper. Nothing unusual about that. Other citizens were likely agitated with all the extra traffic, all those …
“I don’t think he’s going to make it through the ceremony,” my daughter Madi predicted of her two year old son, Eli. We were standing in the foyer of Ransdell Chapel for Madi’s Pinning Ceremony. She was graduating from Campbellsville University’s School of Nursing. I was already proud of Madi and wanted to be there …
The Bluegrass Country around Lexington, KY., not far from where I live in Lebanon, KY., is home to some of the finest racehorses. It’s exciting to watch the horses bolt from the starting gate as the sound of their hooves thunders across the track. That’s the picture I have of so many people at the …
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It was our first foray into Christmas shopping, 2014, the day after Black Friday. I meandered aimlessly through the department store, my wife’s words echoing in my ears: “We’ll just stop for a few things after we take Mary to the airport. At least we’ll get some Christmas shopping started. Don’t worry. I want to …