My grandmother (Betty Jones) believed that every family—especially hers—should gather around the dinner table together, often. So, she put up homegrown vegetables all summer for our weekly family dinners. If she hadn’t, well, we might have had to settle for mere store-bought produce. She made homemade mayonnaise because the kind in the jar just wouldn’t do. [...]
This week I'm celebrating the completion of my first year of blogging! Wow. Ten years ago, I didn’t even know what a blog was. Last March, when I launched my website and blog (called Along the Way), I had no idea what to expect. I decided to try to honor God in each post. I wondered [...]
Private Nelson Jones was pinned down under fire with his unit in a small square in Oerlinghausen, Germany, on April 18, 1945. As he tried to return fire, he was hit by the blast of a Panzer tank shell and killed instantly on a chilly Wednesday morning. A year earlier, he was walking the halls [...]