Devotional
We May Start Without You
I feel cheated. Nobody ever taught us this fact in school, but from what I read, the First Thanksgiving was not a single dinner, but a three day harvest festival. THREE DAYS! I thought nothing […]
Janice Crow
Devotional
Popcorn Testimony
It’s odd that a childhood memory is filed in my brain as both one of the best and one of the worst memories of my life. Go back with me to about age nine to […]
Devotional
Uncoordinated Faith
It all started with the Hokey Pokey in Kindergarten. I put my right foot in, I put my right foot out, I put my right foot in, but when it was time to shake it […]
Devotional
Devotional
What In Tarnation?
To borrow a catchphrase from Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)…”picture it”…small town Illinois, 1961…curly-haired girl in a little plaid dress, white anklets and Mary Jane shoes. This was back when a kid could walk to and […]
Janice Crow
The Old Chest
A while back, I wrote an article about an old chest beneath the creaky basement stairs at my parents’ house. I had never seen the contents of it, ever, in my entire life. When I […]
Janice Crow
POTLUCK OF OPINIONS
It all started out so well. I still don’t know how I mustered the courage to raise my hand, and the outcome has made me think twice about volunteering for anything else….. ever. It was […]
Janice Crow
What My Brother Taught Me
What My Brother Taught Me When I was a kid, I would never have thought of my brother, Bill, as a teacher. He was not a stellar student and was not particularly fond of school. […]
Janice Crow
Cobwebs and Cookie Dough
WELCOME to my favorite season – Fall! For some reason Fall just seems to open the door to all things good and cozy. It’s nature’s reward for enduring a long, hot summer, and a signal […]
Janice Crow
Sounds Worth Saving
There are a lot of memories that come rushing in when I think about the National Quartet Convention…some great, some not so great, but all indelibly etched in my mind. Some of those memories go […]