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Kent Bernhardt: What’s with all the squirrels?
By Kent Bernhardt Is it me, or is Salisbury just infested with squirrels lately? Maybe I just never ...
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Lynna Clark: Don’t forget
We’re 68. Well … I am. Though he is a few months younger than me, David knows enough ...
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Mack Williams: The eye of spring recalled
With the coming of the Summer Solstice being now some weeks away, I thought back to how this ...
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Kent Bernhardt: Not cool — don’t wanna be
By Kent Bernhardt I’m not cool. It’s a reality that I’m comfortable with because the truth is I ...
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Ashlie Miller: Honey in the rock
Pulling the boiling water pot off the burner, my 5-year-old and I mixed sugar until it dissolved, creating ...
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Ashlie Miller: The white flower —for Mother’s Day
Before I leave the house Sunday morning, I will add an extra accessory to my dress — a ...
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Mike Wilson: Ice capades
By Mike Wilson I am no Nancy Kerrigan, by which I do not mean to suggest that I ...
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Ashlie Miller: Jesus remembers and restores
If you ever make a Christian pilgrimage to Israel, be sure to visit the Church of the Primacy ...
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Lynna Clark: Beautiful Joes
By Lynna Clark What could he do? It came down to a couple different options. He could break ...
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Mack Williams: Old demolished house
The other day I was driving around when I suddenly saw something different; actually, it was something different ...
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Lynna Clark: Knock, knock
I have two sisters who are twins. Not with me, with each other. Otherwise I guess we’d be ...
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Mike Wilson: Cousin Chris
By Mike Wilson Christian Sorenson Bennett, one year my senior, was my favorite boyhood cousin. He was ...
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Mike Wilson: Down Mexico way
By Mike Wilson In light of the most recent round of border disturbances, Mexico no longer calls to ...
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Lynna Clark: All mine
“Hey man! Don’t be takin’ my donkey!” That’s what I would’ve said if a couple of strangers came ...
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Mike Wilson: Namesakes — all those other Michaels
By Mike Wilson I was once told that I was named Michael after my mother’s favorite great uncle ...
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Ashlie Miller: Trying to savor those Sandwich Years
Two slices of bread with a mix of creamy peanut butter stirred with globs of grape jelly smeared ...
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Mack Williams: Palm Sunday road reverie
With Ash Wednesday not far in the past, Palm Sunday surely is just around the corner. My church’s ...
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Lynna Clark: Inept with new technology
By Lynna Clark I’m kind of clumsy when it comes to social graces. Like Don Rickles on the ...
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Mack Williams: An overgrown memory
One recent day, I visited a life-long friend of my late wife Diane (and almost life-long friend of ...
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Lynna Clark: That can’t be good
We have three grown daughters scattered about making their little corners of the world better. During a recent ...
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Lynna Clark: Big ol’ bucket
We used to have the best doctor. When David’s A1C registered high, she gave him a plan to ...
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Mike Wilson: The high art of the low crawl
I killed my first duck, a hen mallard, while lying on my belly in soupy mud under buckbushes ...
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Lynna Clark: Winter hope
Don’t you love seeing daffodils this time of year? Around our house they seem to be popping up ...
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Mack Williams: Nuts about acorns
Some time ago, while walking the trail in a local park, a late-falling acorn hit the top of ...
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Lynna Clark: Pointy finger
By Lynna Clark Did you ever have the pleasure of meeting my mom-in-law Nina? She was feisty, funny ...
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Mike Wilson: The fugitive — an uninvited lesson in applied calculus
By Mike Wilson When my wife and I decided to dock our powerboat at Lake Norman, I was ...
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Lynna Clark: Uncommon sense
On a rare day of sunshine in early February, my beloved and I enjoyed time on the back ...
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Ray Carter: Biblical worldview offers youth a framework for making sense of history, new information
It seems that reminders of how fallen our world is are being thrust upon us with increasing regularity. ...