by Stacey Denny | Aug 17, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
Joan and I went this past Tuesday afternoon over to Mill Creek Friends Meeting graveyard southwest of Danville to meet with the cemetery trustee to pick out our gravesites. We’re not hoping to fill them anytime soon, but we intend to engage in riotous living after we...
by Stacey Denny | Aug 10, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
I ran into an old friend last week who I hadn’t seen in a while, so we were updating one another on our lives, showing each other pictures of our grandchildren, discussing our medical ailments, the usual conversation of anyone over 65. I have added bursitis to my...
by Stacey Denny | Aug 5, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
A family friend is getting married this week, and I’m officiating. When I met with he and his fiancée to discuss the wedding, I asked where they were going on their honeymoon. “The beach,” they said. Then he asked where we had gone on ours. I told him we had driven to...
by Stacey Denny | Jul 2, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
Joan and I were down at the farm last Saturday and a van pulled up to the house and a well-dressed young man carrying a large Bible emerged. Joan said under her breath, “Uh, oh, this is going to be about religion.” That’s like red meat to me, like throwing a dog a...
by Stacey Denny | Jun 11, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
Listen to the song Homeward Bound, written by Marta Keen Thompson, and sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Here’s the LINK Our granddaughter Madeline has a smart phone that can play any song in the world anytime she wants to hear it. Kids today have it so easy. Why,...
by Stacey Denny | May 19, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
I was in an antique store recently and came across a book called The Best of Life. It was a book of photography, published in 1973, containing the most significant pictures of the 20th century, even though the century still had 27 years left in it. The book was free...
