My parents have a 300-acre farm down in southeastern Missouri. There were fields, forests, a creek, railroad tracks in the back, and a lot of other things. As you might imagine, it was paradise for a kid like me. Granted, I did enjoy playing my video games, but more often than not, you’d find me [...]
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One score and eight years ago, in a small town in Indiana, a child was born. In the delivery room, the father’s forehead was covered with beads of sweat as he nervously awaited the arrival of his newborn son. He held the hand of his wife to give her encouragement. Just a couple more pushes, [...]
There is a thing going around Facebook at the moment where people are changing their profile pictures to one of their favorite childhood cartoons. As I understand it, it’s supposed to be something about awareness and prevention of child abuse. I normally don’t participate in things like this, as I find them dumb. For some [...]