These days, not much is taught about what it was like during the Great Depression. The American Farmer was hit hard during those years and forever changed the landscape for family-owned farms. Did you ever wonder how so many of the small farms in America became owned by big businesses? […]
Daily Archives: July 1, 2022
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White Privilege: Having it easier due to skin color. My early work life: After graduating high school, I got a job working in a machine shop assembling check-valves for oil and gas. It was June 1961 and the building was a metal building. The equipment I was working with was […]
The last few years have been very difficult and many times I would fall into a “poor me” mindset. I tried my best to keep up the appearance that I was fine. Late in life, having spent the vast majority of my life with a woman that had loved me […]
I see people talking on TV either out of ignorance or to push a lie about current events and/or past history and I find myself yelling at the TV. Then I see people’s comments about their “new” understanding of how they have benefited through their “white privilege” and I think […]
Today, many people have bought into the idea that we should never judge others for their actions and there are verses in the Bible that support that idea. However, if your life is built on the idea that you can “pick” certain verses to defend your decisions or perhaps let […]
Lillie is always the “life of the party”, is not shy around strangers, and gives off her bubbling personality. She rarely appears to be upset in public settings. She is very smart, but sometimes her interest may be on other things and that can create tension with others when some […]
I have so much to say built up inside me that I find it hard to say what I feel now. Not many years back these comments would have been shared with only a few and in private. However, many of our friends and family share with each other here […]