Parker’s Blog

My Point to Ponder today was a quote from Thomas Jefferson, “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” The danger he spoke of was from the British forces scattered across the American colonies. Within this statement was a resolve to face death rather than bow...

Right now I’m sitting here at the kitchen table looking out the bay window watching the green leaves and limbs sway gently in the late spring breeze. Just through the tree tops, partially blocked from view is a clear blue sky. Only days or was it weeks, perhaps months...

Once when my brother Mike, cousin Joe and myself were helping clear a five acre lot for my Uncle Vernon, we kinda deviated from the task so to speak…or rather started playing instead of working. Depends on how you wanted to look at it. We found a ditch surrounded by...