I didn’t go to church in jail to find God. I went because it was the only way to interact with guys from other blocks and pass off contraband. On this particular day, I had to get some pills to a guy in B block, and chapel was the safest way to do it. I …
She was in her late 80s. I was rushing around, trying to make everything perfect for a church luncheon. You know the drill—centerpieces crooked, someone forgot forks, and I was sweating through my nice blouse pretending not to panic. She was sitting alone at a table in the corner, napkin in her lap, hands folded, …
Why Do We Need To Protect Our Grasslands? Grazing land, also referred to as grasslands, serve as a cross-over ecosystem that contributes critical protein production for a global population, provides for rural economies, and at the same time influences our climate, eater and air quality, wildlife habitats and sequesters significant quantities of atomosphic carbon. In …
I watched as the two students noticed I was walking toward them and both stealthily slid their math homework under their writing notebooks and pretended to be totally engaged in thinking of their next writing idea. I, of course, was not fooled. I came up behind them, crouched low and whispered, “I want to tell …
Our lives are filled with stuff. “What do you mean by stuff?”, you ask. Just that. STUFF. I’m not talking about going to work, spending quality time with our families, or doing all those routine tasks that we have to perform to keep our lives in some type of order. Webster’s Dictionary defines STUFF as: …
A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, ‘It is time for me to …
When panic set in and the shelves emptied fast, people rushed home, fearing their food wouldn’t last. They scrambled and fought, filling their carts, locking their doors, and guarding their hearts. They worried and wondered, What will we do? With stores running out, their fears only grew. But amidst the chaos, a sound could be …
There’s a certain point in life one reaches at no particular age. It’s powerful. It’s at this point when you would rather sit and sip the simplest of beverages and read a good book by yourself than be surrounded by others trying to carry on awkward conversations. It’s when you stop worrying about the stain …
I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in …
As a small scale farmer, there are many days that you work much harder than you actually realize the profit from. Some people want laying age birds but complain about the prices small farmers set for the birds that they’ve hatched and raised. So, let’s do a breakdown of the cost it takes to raise …