“The Night the Holy Ghost Visited the Methodist Remember Ray Steven’s crazy song about the Mississippi squirrel causing a revival in the Pascagoula church? I’m here to tell you about a similar event that took place in Carthage. It happened during a “Watch Night” service. For those who don’t know, … [Read more...]
The Crazy Things We Did By Doug Nelson
"Baked Potato" Uncle Kenny was the type that always kept his car polished and if anything wasn’t mechanically perfect it would be in the shop that evening. When he went into a gas station, the service attendant was not allowed to wipe his windshield with their filthy rag. We were not allowed to … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
STANDARD FOR THE HUMAN SHAPE AS REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED (Note: This column ran in the FFB News Aug. 28, 2002.) Last week this column catalogued the needless suffering Mankind has endured thru the ages attempting to conform to a false (and cruel) standard for the Human Shape, namely, the Hard Body. … [Read more...]
The Crazy Things We Did By Doug Nelson
"The Gyro" An Unintentional Cliff-Hanger Here’s the “Rest of the Story”From Doug’s story last week (They’ve been married for over a year!) I’m sure you all heard of Multi-Level Marketing before. Well, back in the early 70s, I got involved in one of these pyramid schemes as they called them. It was … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
Standard for the Ideal Human Shape Revisted (Note: This column appeared in the FFB News on Aug. 28, 2002.) For countless centuries the world has suffered immeasurably trying to conform to a faulty standard for the human figure. This bogus yardstick sets as its ideal a hard body with muscular … [Read more...]
The Crazy Things We Did By Doug Nelson
"The One in the Middle" As we all begin to age, we fondly remember the things we did as youths. In some cases, to relive those memories again nowadays we would end up in jail. However, sometimes we still do some crazy stuff. This happens to be one of those later life, wonderful, crazy things. My … [Read more...]
Out of Bounds by Geary Leason
"Passion in the Ozarks" Eureka Springs, in northwest Arkansas, is a very enchanting tourist town built around the natural springs of “magical” healing waters as first discovered and used by some local Indian tribes. Beginning in the 1850s, these curative waters brought healing to some prominent … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
"Some Things I Wish I'd Never Said" (Note: This column originally appeared in the Fairfield Bays News on Sept. 11, 2002.) Every so often something flies out of our mouths that we wish we could get back. But of course, it is always too late. Typically, these outbursts of inappropriate comments … [Read more...]
The Crazy Things We Did By Doug Nelson
Dave and Craig had gone fishing Saturday night and caught a huge carp. With no place to keep the oversized fish until everyone could see it the next day, the baptistry at the church seemed to be the best place. All the guys would all be there early Sunday morning for Sunday School. As it so … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
Bad Ideas Part II “Fighting and Winning the Battle for Academic Freedom” (Note: Today’s column was originally printed in the Fairfield Bay News on Feb. 2, 2005 and is a follow-up to last week’s column titled “Bad Ideas.” ) We send our kids to school to learn how to think so that they will be … [Read more...]
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