Ring in the New Year!

Happy 2021! May this new year bless us with hope and health, truth and light and peace. I have often heard the expression “to ring in the New Year” without giving much thought to what it meant — aside from churches ringing their bells on New Year’s Eve. But this…

Great-Granddaddy Wise

One of my most prized possessions is a book of poetry written by my great-grandfather — my mother’s mother’s father. His first name was Stidger, but I don’t know whether anyone actually used it. Mom and her sisters called him “Granddaddy Wise” (Wise was his last name), and they adored…