My Stories
These are stories/articles that I wrote about our lives, our families, places we have been, and other incidents that triggered my thoughts.
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Two Unforgettable Days Our unforgettable, mishap filled, wedding day. | |
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GOD IS IN CONTROL How God guided us to the hospital in a strange town during my wife's heart attack. | |
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I've Never Walked Alone He's always been beside me. | |
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Oklahoma Tornadoes Experiences with tornadoes in Oklahoma. | |
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Childhood Diseases I never caught most of the typical childhood diseases. | |
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Pioneering Downrange Living on Grand Bahama Island in a 3-room shack on the beach. | |
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Quitting Smoking I quit cold-turkey after 40 years. -- Added December 29, 2006 | |
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Liberty Flight to Dallas Mishap-filled flight in 1955. -- Added December 29, 2006 |
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You Caught What A granddaughter goes fishing. |
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Mean Bull A young bride and a mean bull. | |
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The Bareback Ride A story about Dad going after medication when I fell on a hot stove as a two-year old toddler. | |
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The Crash When Dad was Assistant Fire Chief on Okinawa during the Korean War. | |
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Rolling Wheel A miracle. | |
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In His Hands An example of being in God's hands. | |
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Mom Embarrassed Dad Dad was forever embarrassing Mom. Finally, Mom embarrassed Dad. | |
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Faith After 40 years of preaching the gospel, a doctor told Dad he was about to die. | |
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Victory In Jesus About Mom. | |
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Shelling Peas My mother-in-laws last days. | |
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Your Mom Has Alzheimer's About Mom and her Alzheimer's disease. |
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Granny Grunt My fantastic grandmother, Granny Grunt. | |
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Precious Memories Humorous anecdotes about my great-grandparents. | |
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Brush Arbor Meeting Great-grandfather and the long-winded preacher. |
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Do You Remember Church in the good old days. | |
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Running the Trotline Fishing experience. | |
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Sleeping Outside Before we had air conditioning. | |
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Escorting a Young Lady This wouldn't work today. | |
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My Bicycle Delivering ice on my bicycle in 1945. | |
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Changing Times Differences between the times of our youth and now. -- Added December 29, 2006 |
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Paper Trained Rabbit Our pet rabbit was paper-trained. | |
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Rabbit Terrorizes Dog A new pet rabbit terrorizes our small dog. -- Added December 29, 2006 |
Snakes:
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Cape Canaveral Snake A fiction story. All of the characters, except the snake, are fictitious. Some men at a Cape radar site really did catch a snake and do what happens in this story. The story about how it happened and the people involved are fiction. -- Added February 17, 2008 | |
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Summer of Snakes Incidents with snakes during the summer when I was 12 years old. -- Added February 17, 2008
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