Here are a couple pictures of Dan and Wes, our younger sons. When I wrote the article they were a few years older than the first picture. This summer the bottom picture was taken. Photographic evidence of them “taking hold.” Have you ever had trouble training your young sons to “take hold” of a task […]
Storytelling Adventures
The first inclination of my life calling was my childhood eagerness to participate in “Show and Tell.” Saturday, after watching our grandbuddie Kyle (K2) Pierpont play basketball in Howell, I drove up the state through Flint, Saginaw, Zilwaukee, Bay City and Pinconning on Interstate 75 and then followed 23 tracing Lake Huron’s great Saginaw Bay […]
I Might Not Live to Be An Old Man
My brother-in-law Bob Dunbar was a generous man. When he suddenly died the first week of February hundreds and hundreds of people gathered to mourn his passing and celebrate his life. Everyone spoke of his serving, his listening, and his generosity. Bob was a giver. He never let me pay for coffee or lunch. When […]
Friends of Bob
Sunday morning, February 1st in South Bend Bob Dubar woke up to a heavy snowfall. He usually got a cup of coffee and got to church early to serve as an usher. Sunday Bob spent some time clearing the drive of snow for his family to get to church. He shoveled behind the cars. He […]
Our Last Cup of Coffee
About thirty years ago, very late on a winter night, the phone rang. I answered. On the other end of the line was a quiet voice. “Hello, this is Bob Dunbar. Could I speak to Linda?” Lois’s sister Linda had come to live with us while she got launched in life. We had plenty of […]
January Sunshine
All the talk on the news today is the blizzard of historic proportions that is about to hit the east coast but this morning here in Michigan the sky is clear and the sun is shining. The snow storm passed south of us last night and we are cheerily about our business. Here’s a story […]
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