by Stacey Denny | Oct 30, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
We spent part of the week down at Sam and Kelsea’s house, visiting our grandchildren. It was fall break down there, so kids were out in full force, riding their bicycles up and down the streets and playing football in the side yards. The family next door home schools...
by Stacey Denny | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
When our kids were little, the Harry Potter books arrived on the American literary scene, much to the dismay of Evangelical Christians who urged parents not to buy the books for their children because Harry Potter was a wizard, a vocation specifically prohibited by...
by Stacey Denny | Oct 17, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
Joan sends her regards. Our daughter-in-law Kelsea phoned us last Thursday to tell us her contractions had started. I tell you; less planning went into the Normandy Invasion than went into this delivery. Here was the plan: Our daughter-in-law would phone us when her...
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...