Archive - Cold Coffee Writer

Inch by inch, row by row...

There is a song that starts with these words…inch by inch, row by row, gonna watch my garden grow….

Jul 12 •

Don't live down in a hole...

This was one of my mother’s mantras.

Jul 5 •

June 2025

This is the dawning of ice cream season...

You know it is summer when you start to think about ice cream.

Jun 28 •

Early to bed, early to rise...

Before I retired I used to get up early.

Jun 21 •

Make new friends but keep the old...

Some times are just hard times.

Jun 14 •

Two sides of the coin

When we were beginning to think about retiring, one of the things that we identified as important was living somewhere that had good medical care.

Jun 7 •

May 2025

When is too much too much?

This week our Congress (the House) passed their falsely named “big, beautiful bill” which essentially robs from the poor and gives to the rich.

May 31 •

No one has greater love...

Sermon for Memorial Day

May 24 •

I just finished reading Alexei Navalny’s memoir, PATRIOT.

May 16 •

Mrs. Hanes' Cookies...

Hand-rolled. Hand-Cut. Hand-Packed.

May 9 •

Devil-Dog Dungarees

I used to wonder how a manufacturing plant named Devil-Dog ever made it into Southern Baptist territory.

May 3 •

April 2025

The lunch counter

For years I have wanted to visit the International Civil Rights Museum.

Apr 26 •

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