by Stacey Denny | Oct 17, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
Wealth7 Wealth Is An Addiction Philip Gulley I visited my alma mater, Marian University, several weeks ago. I had met the president, and he invited me to tour the campus with him, so off we went on a golf cart and saw the sights. I think he thinks I have more money...
by Stacey Denny | Oct 17, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
When I was nine-years-old, my parents moved to a stately old house on the south side of Danville, which is how I acquired my southern accent. The house had been built in 1913 for a Quaker minister and had a double parlor where Quaker weddings were held. When I was...
by Stacey Denny | Aug 13, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
When we had our house renovated twenty years ago, I had bookshelves built in my office, which are now stacked with books in haphazard piles. They were once arranged by topic, but now they’re arranged by convenience, the books I never read toward the back, and the ones...
by Stacey Denny | Aug 13, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
I was up on the ladder last month cleaning our gutters and noticed our 30-year roof that was installed 18 years ago already needs replaced. The month before I had replaced our 80,000-mile tires after 49,000 miles, and just before that I replaced a half dozen LED light...
by Stacey Denny | Aug 12, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
I had a neighbor growing up whose name was Roger. We were the same age, maybe 7 or 8, and we shared a sandbox, a sort of communal sandbox, which we shared with several neighborhood cats. Every morning we’d clean it out, then play cars, building highways, tunnels, and...
