By Glenn Dromgoole May is National Hamburger Month, so today I’m writing about hamburgers – and math. Two of my favorite subjects! Well, there’s a faith aspect, too. We all love hamburgers, but we don’t all love them the same way. I like mine with cheese, with mayo (but not too much mayo), with lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, on a
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By Glenn Dromgoole For eight years, my friend and journalistic colleague Loretta Fulton has produced, at her own expense, the website, Spirit of Abilene. It’s a wonderful community service, offering news, views, and information related to the spiritual side of the community. I find that I spend more time reading Spirit every week than any other news site I have
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Second of two parts By Glenn Dromgoole These Food Elegies – not food allergies – are nostalgic tributes to the importance of food and family. Maybe as you peruse these short “elegies,” you will be encouraged to jot down a few of your own. Dinner with the FamilyNearly every night back thenwe sat down togetheras a family for dinner –except
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First of two parts By Glenn Dromgoole We hear a lot these days about food allergies. That’s not what this little collection is about. It’s about Food Elegies, melancholy tributes in verse to some of the foods we grew up with–and the loving hands who prepared them. A nostalgic reflection on the importance of food and family. Maybe as you
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By Glenn Dromgoole Senior citizens who enjoy singing some of the great old gospel hymns gather at 10 o’clock every Tuesday morning at the Rose Park Senior Citizens Center for an hour of robust singing. They’ve been getting together for at least 15 years, maybe more. Retired Abilene school teachers Bo and Dana Whitaker are the coordinators, Denise Hicks plays
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By Glenn Dromgoole Will Allen Dromgoole was a prolific poet in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was born in Tennessee in 1860 and died there in 1934. She wrote more than 7,000 poems and a dozen books. For a brief time in the late 1890s, she lived in Texas and even had a speaking gig in Abilene in
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By Glenn Dromgoole I was straining to make outthe letters on the bottom lineof the eye chart on the wallwhile the letters on the top linewere clearly visible I was reminded how our focustoo often is on the bottom lineinstead of the top linewhere priorities and values should direct our vision Glenn Dromgoole’s latest book is A Few Encouraging Words. He
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By Glenn Dromgoole Christmas begins at the manger. It doesn’t end there. If we don’t get beyond the manger, the wise men, the shepherds, the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, we really miss the point of Christmas. Christmas isn’t so much about the miraculous way Jesus of Nazareth was born as it is about the way he lived. And the
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By Glenn Dromgoole More than ever beforeI’m praying for peaceThis Christmas season. Peace in our fragile worldWhere any day we couldAnnihilate ourselves. Peace in our divided nationWhere we have barely survivedA contentious election. Peace in our prayersFor a President many of usDid not support but many did. And, yes, he needs our prayersAnd, yes, he needs my prayersFor our country,
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