By DANNY MINTON Summertime in the 1950’s and 60’s was much different than today. You had your chores to mow the lawn or wash the car, but other than that you would pretty much have a lot of free time on your hands. There were no cell phones, computers or video games (unless you count “Pong” which few people owned),
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON We all have people who have influenced us in our lives. Maybe it was the lady who gathered the neighborhood kids in her home to tell them Bible stories. It could have been a coach that worked with us day in and day out. Then again, maybe it was your mom or dad or grandparent who showed
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON To most of us, loud noises can be irritating. It started years ago when we were just babies. A loud bang, rattle or abrupt noise would send us off into a crying spell. We didn’t realize at the time what it represented, only that it was irritating and required us to express our lack of satisfaction with
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Have you ever done something stupid? I mean something you can look back on and say, “I can’t believe I did that, it was so dumb!” Be honest, look back in your past and relive that event as painful as it may have been. Painful is the word that describes one of the dumbest things I ever
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON While I was attending college there was one boy, we’ll call him Joe, who pretty much everyone tried to avoid. He was a nice good looking kid but had difficulty keeping close friends. The problem was his feet. They smelled. Due to this problem, people didn’t like being around him both in class and socially. It was
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON You walk through the hallway every day and notice him sweeping or mopping the floor. Some days you nod and say “Hi,” while most days you scurry on to your next class not giving him much attention. You’re here for a better education where you don’t have to spend your life sweeping floors like him. Or maybe
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON You wake up one morning with a pain that doesn’t seem to go away. You’re feeling tired all the time and act like all your energy has gone out the window. You make an appointment with the doctor who doesn’t know what is wrong either so he orders some blood work and an x-ray. The x-ray and
Read moreWhen I was a young father, I prayed fervently over and over that God would let my son grow up to be normal. I prayed every night for months and months, but God didn’t seem to listen. Then I prayed to God, “What have I done for this to happen in our lives?” I prayed, “Why?” When I was young,
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON It was the fall of 1967 while I was a sophomore at ACC. One of my grandparents had passed away, and I had to borrow a fellow student’s car to get to the funeral. The car was an old Volkswagen Beetle. It was one of the original ones that did not have a gas gauge. You would
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