by Stacey Denny | Jan 1, 2026 | Plain Speech Messages
The longer I live, the more I dream of those who’ve passed away but still populate my sleeping hours. I was talking about this with someone not long ago and they asked if it made me sad, to dream about dead people, and I said, “Just the opposite. It’s like having them...
by Stacey Denny | Dec 8, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
This is our first Sunday back since Thanksgiving, which this year was a modest affair at the Gulley home. This was the year many in our family dined with their in-laws, so our usual crowd of twenty-five was down to nine. For the first time in 30 years, there wasn’t an...
by Stacey Denny | Dec 8, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
I bumped into a man this past week whom I’ve known since we were in the first grade. It’s funny, but I can’t shake the feeling that we’re still back in first grade and that nothing has changed. We’re still six years old in Mrs. Mann’s class. Of course, that isn’t...
by Stacey Denny | Nov 17, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
I’ve been fascinated by politics since 1974, when Richard Lugar first ran for the United States Senate against Birch Bayh and lost. During the campaign, my dad gave me a box of Richard Lugar pamphlets to distribute around the town, which became my after-school job....
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 | 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...
