WHEN O’BRIAN SACKED HIS SADDLE I saw Three Fingers Bob at the post office and got caught up on what’s happening to all the old timers in the area. Bob was born a mile or two down the road about 85 years ago. He keeps me up on the latest news of the older set. […]
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE If you were planning for the future, how would you prepare? With an IRA or paying into Social Security? Purchase a house and think about retirement savings for the trips you’d take? I met a fellow once who said, “I don’t prepare for the future. That’s unspiritual.” Then I walked with […]
A Nickel Plated Style My wife, Janet, enjoys wearing western-style clothing. Oh, not the common, ordinary jeans, boots, and blouse. Rather she prefers what I call nickel-plated, western chic. Her sterling silver, feather, and turquoise earrings, for instance, harmonize with the rings on her fingers and necklaces. And they have to blend with the sequined […]
Christmas Cowboy Poem “The Lord’s Backyard” The stars look closer the higher you ride, ‘specially on a clear, winter night. And the moon glow reflectin’ off new fallin’ snow casts a peaceful, other-worldly light. When the wind quits blowin’ and the temperature drops, and the twinklies blanket the sky. They’re lulled by the rhythm of the snow-crunching hooves […]
What’s So Good About Coming Home? Coming home touched the viewers of the Stephen Spielberg movie, E. T., years ago. No matter how much love and attention the child actors gave to that extraterrestrial being, he still lacked something. The classic line, “E. T. phone home,” brought more than one tear. We’ve all felt homesickness at […]
Living on the Spiritual Western Frontier A lot of people in our country think the Western frontier fully settled in the nineteenth century. But that’s not true in places like the old logging town of Winchester, Idaho. Regions like that still remain vast, unpopulated, very pragmatic and independent, sometimes dangerous, and always a bit wild. […]
What To Tell Your Kids and Grandkids About Heaven ** Our kids know our views on politics and sports, on movie stars and music. We express our opinion on most anything, whether they ask us or not. So, why would we hesitate to tell them about something as important as heaven? We don’t know everything […]
A Bit of Old-Fashioned Preachin’ Old West movies conjure up a lot of images. Fast draw gunfights in the streets. Outlaws with bandannas over their faces robbing banks. Lawmen jumping off horses onto backs of fleeing bad men. Goodhearted women of easy virtue. And the town drunk full of demon liquor. Not all the images […]
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