Second Chair

April 2023

In the 1960s my father was a packaging manager for HuntWesson foods in Fullerton, California. One day a manworking on the labeling machinestopped the packaging line becausesomething was wrong.When my father got to his station theman explained that the machine…
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March 2023

I am usually up and out of the house beforeTricia starts her day. So, every morning Iwrite her a note and always end it bywriting, “I Love You” with a circled heart.One day Tricia got up earlier than usual. Aswe…
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November 2022

Harmony with One AnotherRomans 12:16 – “Live in harmony with one another…”When I was in Junior High school, our choir teacher was Miss Coover, and she was the greatest! She took it in stride as our voices were changing, sometimes…
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October 2022

KindnessWhen I was in sixth grade my teacher was Mrs. Houser. There was another sixth-grade teacher named Miss Johnson, who was not my teacher, and one day for some reason the two classes were together in Miss Johnson’s classroom.One of…
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August 2022

These days when everything is so easy to access through our phones or our computer, we sometimes forget just how important and powerful our minds are.Electric signals in our brain travel faster than any computer. These signals travel using ten…
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