... the arduous trip himself--never saying a word of reproach to his son. Fifty years later, the renowned and prosperous Samuel Johnson, now his name a household word throughout England, stood bareheaded for hours close by a spot in that same small community ... Magazine, of all places, with the well-known singer/song writer John (Couger) Mellencamp, best known for his 1982 rock song “Jack and Diane.” [It may be a shock to some of you boomers to realize that Mellencamp is now 65 years old.] Time is passing. In ...
... they were not leaving for another two or three hours, after they went home, packed, and took their children to the hotel. Diane and I pounded up to Pittsburgh, driving a few miles over the speed limit and stopping only for gas. When we arrived ... .J. Simpson had television and movie contracts and several million dollar properties. What more could a person want? Samson, David, Bathsheba, "Magic" Johnson and O.J. Simpson have some things in common - they did not do drugs and they were not gay. They were just ...
... as long as you can. Righteousness is more than keeping the rules; it is a stand for justice, a search for truth, a life of love. I have been reading the story of Jim Lawson, John Lewis, Diane Nash, C. T. Vivian, Bernard Lafayette, Jim Bevel, Rodney Powell, and Gloria Johnson, all college students who led the Civil Rights sit-in’s in Nashville which integrated department store lunch counters. I’ve been moved by their determination to take their cause for freedom on bus rides through Alabama, Mississippi ...
