My best guess is that it was 36 years ago when we first vacationed with our girls on Holiday Isle in Destin…a tradition that continued almost every year that they were with us. A highlight was the daily walk down the beach to “The Rocks” (as we called the East Pass Jetty) where we would climb around and…
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Always has been. It seems that everything about this year has been different, and mostly in a bad way for many. COVID-19 has changed the way we have been able to live our lives. And now the preparation for and the celebration of Thanksgiving has been affected as well. We are having most of…
In the late 1960’s, it would often be near midnight when several close friends and I would come back to my house on June Drive and begin basketball games on the blacktop court that doubled as our driveway. As I think back on it, I can only imagine how irritating the rhythmic pounding of the ball against the…
“What do you do?” It’s a question I hate to answer, and I know it’s coming every time I am introduced to someone new. It’s not that I cannot answer it, but I know what’s coming next after I say that we own a family business. “What is your business?” invariably follows. Because we operate several…
Although written prayers have been a part of church fabric throughout its history, I have never really used many, other than The Lord’s Prayer, until fairly recently. But now I find that prayers recorded by those who have experienced much deeper walks and who have preceded me in the faith can do a lot to prepare my own…