By Glenn Dromgoole Abilene poet Bob Fink spoke at our church on a Wednesday night and gave us a handout – a one-page excerpt from Michael Perry’s book, Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time. Bob encouraged us to select one line from the piece that might make a good first line in a poem.  I was

By Glenn Dromgoole One of my favorite country songs of all time is “Little Bitty,” a peppy number written by Tom T. Hall and made into a hit by Alan Jackson. The chorus:  Well, it’s all right to be little bittyA little hometown or a big old cityMight as well share, might as well smileLife goes on for a little

By Glenn Dromgoole One of the many things I like about Loretta Fulton’s Spirit of Abilene website is that it is trying to keep alive something that has almost become extinct: the importance of personal commentary or personal journalism to the fabric and spirit of a community. Unfortunately, that’s missing from most daily newspapers these days. There was a time,

By Glenn Dromgoole My wife and I were at a party, and we met a church member whom we did not know previously. In the course of the conversation, it came up that we usually sit in the north section of the Trinity-sided sanctuary. We joked that we were “left-leaning Presbyterians.”  Then I said that we had tried sitting in