Jerry Gray taught me world history when I was in the tenth grade at Oxford High School. He’s one of the first people I remember meeting who had a truly staggering amount of knowledge in his head and at the ready. He never used a written plan or a book when lecturing; he just talked. … Read more
We officially joined our church, and the boys were baptized, this morning. (Actually we’re pretty bad “joiners” in the usual sense of the word—took us four years of nearly-every-Sunday visiting, though also in our group this morning was a family who’s been attending regularly for fourteen.) Today was the result of much thought and prayer, … Read more
So how cool is this? Here is my father-in-law posing with an example of one of the most iconic and socioculturally charged road signs in the world. Lea and her family put this between 1961 and 1964. Marvelous! Wish he was still here for me to ask him about it.