Author Archives: Sharon

Mailboxes and Old Barns: There’s Always a First Time

Posted on May 19, 2013

Perhaps it was in the evening when Mom said, “Tomorrow you can go up to get the mail by yourself.” Only once in a lifetime does the day come when a thirteen year old farm girl is first told “Tomorrow, … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: Guest Post from my cousin’s writings, about our Grandfather

Posted on May 12, 2013

DRYLANDER’S DREAM, BY A DRYLANDER’S GRANDDAUGHTER   “Joannie Girlee” as told by her dear Mother, Esther on July 3, 1993 Fabricated and Filled by Joannie             The heat from the sun burned down on the parched earth as Fredrick Hansen scanned his once … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: Barbed Wire

Posted on May 5, 2013

Mailboxes along the roads and old barns set back in fields overgrown with weeds often served as landmarks in rural Montana. These landmarks told us where we were, and how far we had to go. Sometimes they signaled “home”  and the end of the road. … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: They Planted Trees and Prayed for Rain

Posted on April 28, 2013

  The Colorado blue spruce in the photo below are about twenty years old.  This view includes about 20% of our tree line/wind break.  These long rows of trees were on the north  and east sides of the big farm … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: Sunday Dinner

Posted on April 21, 2013

With or without company, Sunday dinner was a little more —  a little more leisurely in terms of the time set aside for enjoying the meal, a little more dressed up, a little more scrumptious on the dessert. And one … Continue reading →

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UPDATE:What does it mean to bear witness?

Posted on April 15, 2013

UPDATE: Expansion on the phrase “Hitler’s execution crews” has been added at the bottom of the post. On page 338 of Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he comments on Bonhoeffer’s observations of America when he was in New York … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: The Coal Bin

Posted on April 14, 2013

Our coal-burning furnace was a big one.  The furnace room in the basement was a closed off, unfinished portion of the basement, about 25 feet X 20 feet with dirt walls, the floor of the big farmhouse overhead, and entered … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: What Generations Thought and Said

Posted on April 7, 2013

Sixty-three years ago, a little country church on the prairie celebrated their 50th anniversary when three generations who had worshiped and matured there returned to sing together, eat together, pray together and remember together.  Our mother’s mother Johanna, along with … Continue reading →

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Jesus as “a great human teacher”? C. S. Lewis explains why that doesn’t work.

Posted on March 31, 2013

“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say.  A man who was merely a man and said the sort of … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes and Old Barns: The Courtship Letters Written in March, 1926

Posted on March 31, 2013

Dear Love, I just arrived home a few minutes ago, and have written to the Clerk of Court to get my mileage, so I am going to send you a chapter right away. The roads to Medicine Lake were enough … Continue reading →

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