HILLSVILLE  PRESBYTERIAN

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...

Have you ever been in a conversation with a group of people and felt a little lost? Maybe you didn’t know much about the topic being...

How many times a day do we go to Google for the information we believe we need? For the answers to the questions that stump us? For the...

If all things are measured, and surely, in some fashion they are, what tips the scale that, say, makes a good day a great day? What moves...

Our legal system knows that we humans like to repeat what we hear. More accurately, what we overhear. What we’re told. What gets shared...

Reveal parties have become all the rage, haven’t they? For a woman, the state of pregnancy usually comes with its own peculiar set of...