Category: Family & Legacy Stories
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Porchlights and Fireflies: A Song That Took Me Back Home
The first nine years of my life were spent on a small farm in rural Greene County, Mississippi. Life was simple, and by today’s standards, some might even say primitive. We didn’t have a telephone or television, and there was no central heat or air conditioning. Our “running water” came from the well in our…
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A Lesson Beyond Grammar
When I was a freshman at Free Will Baptist Bible College (now Welch College), Dr. Judy Simpson, my English professor, taught us far more than the rules of grammar and essay structure. She had a favorite saying: “A messy mind means a messy person, and a messy person means someone who will sweep the dirt…
The Curious Pilgrim 