HILLSVILLE  PRESBYTERIAN

If we’ve been around at least a decade or so on this good earth, we know what it’s like to have our plans unravel and our projects fall...

Okay, let’s play for a bit, shall we? We all know what or who rubs us the wrong way, don’t we? We are well aware of the friction we feel...

Perhaps it is so as it was scripted for the opening of the iconic television series Star Trek … that space is the final frontier. This...

It doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it’s an expansive experience. Sure, sometimes we’d prefer not to expand… or to be...

Summer is approaching and for many of us that might bring to mind thoughts of water. And not just drinking more water in the heat of the...

A six-year-old, separated from the adult who once held him in tow but who veered down a different aisle in the wide and wild world of...

Irony. Don’t you love it? Humor with a bite. So it is with the expression “clear as mud.” Words that don’t logically fit together. We all...

Knees. Wrists. Shoulders. Hips. All those places in our bodies that are prone to slip and slide and groan and grind. Potential...

The year was 1967. Television watchers were tuning into the Ed Sullivan Show, among other vintage favorites. During his tenure on air...

A person dies. Perhaps death came suddenly. A tragedy. The spouse, family members are grieving, in shock. The news ripples through the...

Who comes up with this stuff? How did it get to be accepted into our everyday language? And when did we decide it is something to be...

Spring is sprouting signs of new life all around us! We’re seeing flowers and shrubs popping open and recently birthed calves wobbling...

…isn’t always easy to get off. Ok, not clothing. Not even grease, grit, or grime. Instead, all that emotional stuff that gets piled onto...

We receive a Christmas card or a birthday gift from someone who appreciates us. That person wasn’t on our Christmas card list or on our...

In days gone by, we couldn’t begin count on one hand the number of times we’d be on a mobile phone hearing the comment from the other...

Off the grid. That’s what people say about themselves when they seek a completely self-sufficient lifestyle. No public utilities. No...

“May I give you a hug?” a third grader asked recently. What a kind and thoughtful question! Personally, I cannot imagine not wanting to...

Little else in life is as embarrassing as having an article of clothing rip open while in public. Janet Jackson will long be remembered...

So, there was this football game this past Sunday evening, although it wasn’t much of a game, and we often get together with friends or...

Have we had the dubious honor of learning how others think of us? “You’re such a princess!” someone might have offered. Or “You...