Grandma's Gleanings
Words and Thoughts from Grandma
God is calling millions of Americans in the so-often silent majority to join in the moral majority crusade to turn America around. The year was 1979, and with that statement, a popular televangelist would pull the religious right out of the shadows and establish it as a powerful force in American politics. Formed in response …
Sometimes reflection is a good thing. After almost 45 years of marriage, I have certainly not mastered the art of being a good wife, but I have most decidedly improved. As I look back on those early years, I quietly giggle in the face of my total ineptness and unpreparedness. Oh, some of those …
It would be one of those moments that would stick in our memories forever, always bringing a grin to our face and a giggle to our hearts. We hadn’t lived in our home long and were just becoming accustomed to the mundane hum of our neighborhood when the morning stillness was broken by the …
The year was 1986, a year hundreds of lives would be needlessly lost. On the Black Sea, off the coast of Russia, two ships would collide on one fateful day, hurling passengers into the icy waters below. When the investigation into the cause of the collision was determined, the disaster took a heart-breaking turn. …
Life is filled with those uncomfortable, unnerving occasions when we are forced to trust another person, even though we may not fully understand the process. My son-in-law is a classic case in point. He is one of those computer nerds, one of those lofty individuals who truly understands all that techno-gibberish. On a recent …
There it was, that familiar cry in the night, the fruit of three older brothers and their incessant teasing. Any mention of the red coat at Winkle family gatherings always invokes memories of childhood shenanigans that originated with some mischievous boys. Here’s the back story. Our adopted daughter was welcomed into a home already populated …