After serving Mountain View Church in Butte, my Father accepted a position at Rocky Mountain College, in Billings, Montana. Hired as Executive Vice-President and Acting President, Poppa wore many hats at Rocky. He spent a lot of time on the …
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“They” tell us to stay at home. If we must go out, we should keep a “social distance” of at least six feet between people. Don’t go out to eat, unless the restaurant serves take out. Don’t go out for …
The largest rya in the world is Rudy Autio’s Montana Horses tapestry. I would like to tell how this remarkable work of art came about, as I was there. When I started working in the Dean’s Office at the University …
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In June, 1954, Poppa became the pastor at Mountain View Methodist Church in Butte, Montana. This was the summer before I turned five in October. The circumstances surrounding our move to Butte were sketchy at best, and in many ways …
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This post needs a soundtrack, and I have chosen the Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman song The Windmills of Your Mind. Throughout the post, I will link you to various singers’ renditions of the song. Windmills won an Academy …
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Yes, it’s Friday the 13th. Wikipedia tells us that Friday the 13th comes around every 212.35 days. Now I’m not a mathematician. I’m not sure what .35 of a day is or how that shows up on a calendar. Thank …
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This post has been written in two parts over a couple of days. I got called away from home while I was writing, then got sick. If you’ve already read the original post, scroll down to the Part Two heading …
In June, 1949, Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips appointed my father pastor of the Methodist Church in Laurel, Montana. In October of that year, I was born. This is a bit about my early life.
Computer error messages can be so cryptic. In my experience, they usually involve numbers like 400, 404, 500, etc. Yesterday, as I was trying to complete the next exercise in my blogging course, a rectangular window popped up in the …
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The Bible teaches us that if you ask, you will receive. Ruth Soukup teaches bloggers that our readers will tell us what they want. This post is my response to those lessons.