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I usually avoid these neighborhoods. This day was different. My 16-year-old daughter, Sara Ann, five of her friends and I were in Atlanta for a church youth weekend. We left the church to get out into the city and learn about poverty and homelessness. Our first stop was an area near downtown Atlanta where the [...]

Mercy

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Yesterday was not my best day behind the wheel; I made two really stupid driving mistakes in the course of about an hour. I wasn’t on the phone at the time, had consumed no alcohol; these was just stupid errors, the kind we all make from time to time when our minds are elsewhere. Both [...]

First Week in October, Part 2

This is my Daddy giving me my diploma at my high school graduation. He was president of the school board at that time and it just worked out so he could do that. And, yes, I know my hair is bad and that the white sandals are very bad, especially with the tan pantyhose.

This is my Daddy giving me my diploma at my high school graduation. He was president of the school board at that time and it just worked out so he could do that. And, yes, I know my hair is bad and that the white sandals are very bad, especially with the tan pantyhose. So [...]

The First Week in October, Part 1

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The first week in October is always hard. My dad’s birthday was October 4 and it always makes me feel a little blue, though this is Daddy’s 15th birthday in Heaven. He loved my daughters deeply and cherished his time with them. They are now 15 and 19, yet his earthly life with them stopped [...]