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Saturday was exciting and exhausting.  Daryl's injury kept him from sleeping soundly, but as the boys start their second day in the woods, their energy is high.    It hasn't occurred to…

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See through the eyes of the young and innocent: faced with challenges they had not imagined, hardship and adventure in which they triumphed and failed, pain they suffered and evil they …

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The war was raging, and everyone was busy attending to their jobs.  We were left on our own a lot -  all the kids were.  It was exciting and sometimes scary.  We were growing up quick.

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Homeless for a while in Portland.  Wartime activities everywhere.  Hustle here, hustle there, ships, airplanes, adrenaline all around.  Trips around the area to see what it's all about …

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World War II was raging.  Workers were streaming west to take jobs in the shipyards along the Columbia River.  The whole world had gone mad, and yet a child's world was just forming.  I…

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A Winter Visit To TEXAS in February;  what a great idea.   So, what could possibly go wrong?

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It's New Year's Eve at the Gas & Grill.  A terrible snowstorm is bearing down on the area.  The lights go out all over town.  A desperate man stumbles in the door ...

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Our town is decorated and everyone is getting ready for Christmas.
  What happens when the kids have a great idea and want to surprise the whole town?    
  It's going to take hard work b…

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In our town, news travels fast.  There is a newspaper in the nearby town of Bloomfield, but it only comes out once a week and most times is way behind the news.  Besides that, it hardly…

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Life goes on with everyday events, special events getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas and then there was the bank robbery.    

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Decisions, decisions, decisions; life is full of them - some good, some bad.   When someone from our town makes a big one you can count on comments.

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Back in The Day learning to drive horses was a challenge, still is for Amish today.  The challenge we reached for were mechanical marvels; an old Oliver tractor, a 32 Ford truck.  The s…

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Not much going on this week till the Department of Transportation showed up to do a project on Main street.    We were on TV waving and shouting encouragement.   We're OK.  The firemen …

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Story Time at the park is a regular event.  We read stories, the children make up plays based on the story, then present them on the stage.  Today's story was interrupted by Alafair, a …

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Change comes hard in our town.  We cling to the customs and practices handed down to us from years past; they mean a lot to us.  They give us identity.  It's who we are.  And yet, chang…

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MAGGIE the CAT.  If you missed this story - it's back again.  It is the most popular of all the short stories on the NO JUNK MAIL podcast.

Maggie the cat; what can I say.   Cats are a sp…

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Out in the country and in the farmland, good-paying jobs are scarce.   We've had our ups and downs with the economy like everybody else but we want to do something about it.  This is Am…

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Conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy, they're all around us.  And, they're driving us to distraction at the Gas&Grill.  Listen in as the discussion jumps from one to another.

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Where do young men get the courage required to stand up to adversity?  Fred Meeks, our barber in Bloomfield tells us his story. 

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Panic, light sabers,  Messiah Concert.  Kansas City is a great place to visit.  At least it is normally.   It can be a place you'll never forget.