Stupid me! I voted for Gerald Ford and Carter won. I voted for Ronald Reagan twice and he won. I voted for Reagan because I liked him in the Bonzo chimpanzee movies. No other reason. I do though regret not voting for Jimmy Carter. Obviously the most thoughtful candidate in the mix. God bless JimmyContinue reading “Jimmy Carter”
Category Archives: Church
Dress for succcess.s
They were seventh grade boys and girls. It was fall 1973. I along with another haole(mainland white guy). taught a Sunday School class at a church in Honolulu, Hawaii. The class was made up with many Pacific Islanders. Mostly from Samoa and a few Asians. The boys often came bare foot and just wearingContinue reading “Dress for succcess.s”
Suddenly he was on fire.
Once again, more from the first ten years. So many tear drops falling from my eye… eyes. We Los Angeles Okies had a limited eating repertoire. Fried chicken and mashed potatoes just to suggest two Okie entrees out of a possibility of two. Not to mention gallons of milk and purple Koo lade. But, BoyContinue reading “Suddenly he was on fire.”
He came, he saw, and he leftt.
Who was that masked man? I believe it was a Sunday night. Yes a Sunday night when we use to attend church on Sunday morning and Sunday night back in the 1960s. And by the way we also attended church on Wednesday nights as well just to clarify things. But anyway, it seemed the pewsContinue reading “He came, he saw, and he leftt.”
Wearing ‘Go to meetin’ clothes.
Okie fashion plate. It took my dad working two jobs in order to outfit my mom with her mostly church fashions. As mentioned my parents lived in a ‘third-world’ community in red dirt Oklahoma before immigrating to California. No electricity, no running water, and no indoor plumbing. All of this was missing before moving toContinue reading “Wearing ‘Go to meetin’ clothes.”
Don’t let the children and widows hear this.
posted by Chuck Ayers Voices coming from above. Our weekends went something like this. Saturday early evening we kids would be near the big sycamore tree and home base in front of our house and out on the parkway between the sidewalk and curb by the street. My older brother would say when I countContinue reading “Don’t let the children and widows hear this.”
Book Report: I thought they fired him.
Book Report After he left the Saturday evening public radio show under a fog of impropriety, Garrison Kiellor really never went away. Still writing his brand of small town prairie humor and taking his show on the road. We noticed his coming appearance on the Brady theater in Tulsa a year or so ago. NeverContinue reading “Book Report: I thought they fired him.”
Book Report. I thought Judy Blume wrote murder mysteries.
Book Report Many of you along with myself may have recently heard an NPR Fresh Air interview with Judy Blume. An interview more or less reviewing Ms Blume’s fifty-year-old bestseller “Are you their God. It’s me Margaret” as it was adapted into motion picture form. Ms Blume concurs that the movie adaptation pretty much followsContinue reading “Book Report. I thought Judy Blume wrote murder mysteries.”
We drove to Sears once a year.
Before we could do Easter… The Saturday before Easter we all drove to Sears in East L A. The place was the main Sears catalogue store at Soto and Olympic. A tall ten-story building just east of the concrete L A River. After arriving and parking My two sisters would go with our mom andContinue reading “We drove to Sears once a year.”
The talking church.
The talking church Sunday morning church. If I were the pastor of a community church, I would remove the “pulpit” and roll it into storage. Then I would take out ALL pews and put out dozens of round dining tables that would accommodate four or five chairs for each table. Then ask all parishioners toContinue reading “The talking church.”
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