By DANNY MINTON Growing up in a small town, the big summer event was Little League baseball. As they reached the age of around 12, the boys in town would anticipate the summer when they would first be picked to play. Baseball was big in the ’50’s. In Plano, the boys would be anxiously waiting by the phone the Saturday the teams were
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON I had the privilege this past year of helping send off one of my high school football teammates. His name was Carl. Carl was a lineman playing in front of me for six years on our Plano Wildcat football team. He was always a good friend with a special laugh and sense of humor. Even now, over
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON I love football! It’s pretty obvious since I talk about it so often, using illustrations and stories. Growing up, we didn’t start football until the seventh grade, although we did do some practicing a year earlier. I was fortunate to be on a state championship team as a senior and attending several Dallas Cowboy games in the
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Our lives have never been more open than they are today due to the outbreak of “Social Media” and “Blogs.” Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and the like are words that have become common everyday words, especially to the younger generation, but spanning all age groups. Add to the “Social Media” the vast number of blogs
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Have you ever lost anything and couldn’t find it? Have you ever worked on something only to have it get destroyed in the blink of an eye? Well, that’s what happened to me recently. I had spent an hour writing my Thursday Thoughts for Southern Hill Church of Christ and went to
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON This time of year made me think of a story I read in “Chicken Soup for the Soul” by Dale Galloway. It’s about a young boy named Chad. Chad decided that he wanted to make Valentines for all his classmates. His mother had wished he wouldn’t because she knew others treated him as an outcast. She’d noticed him
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, segregation of races was something that was just a part of life. In the small town in which I lived black and white mixed very little. Part of the town we designated as “colored” town. The schools were separate and the only time I can remember stepping into the black
Read moreBy Danny Minton Every year, I try to attend the family reunion on my dad’s side. Like many families, the Minton family has always made it a point to get together on a yearly basis to keep in touch. I believe this is an important part of a family’s legacy and should be a practice that every family should make
Read more“Sometimes your light goes out but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.” Albert Schweitzer (Danny Minton writes “Thursday Thoughts” for the church leadership at Southern Hills Church of Christ. He shares one of those weekly writings with readers
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