In the small Fannin County Hospital, local ministers take turns being chaplain for a week. Fred Craddock tells about one of his assigned weeks when a baby was born. It creates quite a stir, because not a lot of babies are born in a thirty-bed hospital. Fred writes, “I went there, about nine in the [...]
There are moments in our lives that can change everything. For Chris Orwig, it happened in a tent, at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California. A bachelor party; and he was camping with a group of friends. When first invited, Chris said no. He relented when told that the first [...]
“We should do this more often.” A middle-aged man is speaking to a woman standing at his side. (Well, shall we say north of middle-age?) I am doing what I do best: Eavesdropping. The couple is leaning on the upper deck railing of a Washington State Ferry on a summer day. We are headed across [...]
In the perfume shop show window was a large jar of freckle salve, and beside the jar was a sign, which read: DO YOU SUFFER FROM FRECKLES? “What does the sign say?” ask Pippi Longstocking. She couldn’t read very well because she didn’t want to go to school as other children did. “It says, ‘Do [...]
