Ernie Perkins
So I grabbed Amy and we sat on the second row (no one sits on thefrontrow of a Baptist church!), right in the middle, directly in front of the pulpit and choir. Amy stared at her lap and I put my arm around her . . . and glared. (BTW, I’m not suggesting this is how you...
Until this week, I had not read Percy in a while. I ran across an item about him recently and decided it was time to revisit him. Since I had never read his second novel,The Last Gentleman(1966), I pulled it from my bookshelf and started to read. Here’s the odd thing: I bega...
James Baldwin, who was educated in a more progressive education system than we have now, wrote, “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” That is the paradox that we must strive...
For me, they’re almost always perfect. Beth and I took pictures on my cheap camera during that trip in 1983. When I got them developed and shared them with her I apologized that almost all of them were fuzzy and out of focus. “Isn’t that what New Orleans looks like?” asked Beth...
Zion Baptist Church (MS) Mary Ann Rouse Thomas Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Ward Brown Master Joe's Matthew Beck Matthew Minicucci Matthew Weiner Maureen Corrigan Maxie Curb Maya Lin Maybelle Carter May Sarton McCrady's restaurant McDonald's Meadville Mississippi Meadville United Methodist Church Melany ...
Zion Baptist Church (MS) Mary Ann Rouse Thomas Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Ward Brown Master Joe's Matthew Beck Matthew Minicucci Matthew Weiner Maureen Corrigan Maxie Curb Maya Lin Maybelle Carter May Sarton McCrady's restaurant McDonald's Meadville Mississippi Meadville United Methodist Church Melany ...