Articles Archive for March 2009
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Ted Engstrom was the respected head of World Vision for many years and the author of a number of very helpful books. In one of them, The Fine Art of Friendship, he tells about a literary group that formed some years ago at the University of Wisconsin. It was made up of a group of gifted young men who wanted to be poets, novelists, essayists, and authors. They were all creative and gifted men with a ton of literary potential, and they met together regularly to read …
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Just a few weeks of my life were spent with my grandfather on the farm though we visited as often as we could. Grandpa Pierpont took it upon himself to teach me things almost continuously while I was there. He taught me to catch catfish, bluegill, crappy, and bass. He taught me to catch and clean a turtle. (Did you know there are fourteen different kinds of meat in a turtle). He showed me how to find edible puff-balls and mushrooms and fry them in batter with the fish. He …
