Uncle Tom’s Cabin

I’ll be blogging over at my other blog: NothingtoCensure  quotes and commentary on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (also known as Life Among the Lowly)  This is my first time to read this book and have found in it a wealth of wisdom and knowledge about the human condition and about the history of slavery in our country.  A [...]

Gotta go Back in Time

I like to remind my wife that my ancestry is Irish. As it turns out, I’m Irish on my dad’s side (which I’ve known; Clark is a subfamily of the Clan McPherson) and my mom’s side (which goes through my grandmother’s maiden name “Flint”). My grandmother (mamaw) relayed the following information to me:
“Horatio [...]

Aberdeen thoughts from Lorrie

Lorrie writing here.  This is my first blog entry.  Watch out!
Just wanted to let everybody know that we’re doing well here in Aberdeen.  Shelby has made a friend at Mawmaw’s church and just got her phone number Sunday so we can have some playdates.  Friends mean the world to Shelbers.  Also all the cousins were [...]

It’s going to be a girl

We found out right before we left Portland that we were going to be having a girl.  We are excited.  Shelby had predicted from the beginning that it would be a girl and wants to name her Hannah Belle.  Lorrie thinks otherwise, so Shelby and I will be teaming up on Lorrie to make the [...]

Like coming home

Hello there friends, sorry I coudn’t update after I posted about being stuck in Wyoming.  Well, we got unstuck.  After being at a trucker’s stop/cafe for about 10 hrs, Tommy and I decided to take an alternative route up to Casper, Wy and back down to Cheyenne.  It was a few miles longer (250 to [...]

Stuck in Wyoming

Tommy and I are stuck in Sinclair, Wyoming.  There’s about a stretch of 90 miles that is closed due to high winds and snow drifts.  We’re camping out at a trucker’s cafe.  We’re just waiting. 

Twin Falls, ID

What a rush!  What pace!  We had a horde of joyous and willing people help us load up this past weekend and get the truck loaded and the house cleaned.  Thanks to all of them.  Thanks to New Life folk, thanks to Nancy, thanks to the McMillans for the toil and laughter.  Thanks to Tommy, [...]