by Stacey Denny | Feb 28, 2018 | GraceTalk Messages
For my tenth birthday, my parents bought me a pup tent and sleeping bag and suggested I spend more time away from home. “The fresh air is good for you,” my mother said. So I became a camper and spent the nights with my friends in the woods around Danville. There was a...
by Stacey Denny | Feb 9, 2018 | GraceTalk Messages
When Joan and I were married, we went on our honeymoon to Colorado, and on our way there stopped at the Harry Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. I had grown up Republican, raised by a father who didn’t care for Mr. Truman and made no bones about...
by Stacey Denny | Feb 2, 2018 | GraceTalk Messages
We were visiting with our younger son Sam on the phone the other day. He’s getting married this summer and we were discussing his wedding plans. I asked him who his groomsmen were going to be, and he said his brother Spencer, a cousin, then said two other names,...
by Stacey Denny | Jan 25, 2018 | GraceTalk Messages
Well, last weekend, with it being too cold to do anything else, Joan decided to clean out and organize our kitchen cabinets. I was perfectly content binge-watching Downton Abbey, but could tell she wanted my help, so I went in the kitchen and whenever she’d put...
by Stacey Denny | Jan 18, 2018 | GraceTalk Messages
I was in the grocery store this past week, turned a corner into the Dinty Moore beef stew aisle, and saw a man who talks and talks and talks about the most inane, uninteresting things. I felt like a fox caught in a trap. I’d chew my leg off to get away. And there he...
