Turtle Rock
As I see it…
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When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? As I sit with a fresh cup of hot coffee on my back porch, overlooking the woods beyond our vegetable garden and backyard, my mind wanders back to what was a rather imaginary childhood. Even what I was told was true,…
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What activities do you lose yourself in? For twenty years of my life, I frequently lost myself in the gym as a bodybuilder to the point of addiction. Spending three to four hours at a time, three and four days a week working out, I just couldn’t get enough. I pushed myself so hard that…
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Today, March 11, marks five years since we arrived in Virginia, our new home, where we began the adventure of building our life-long dream home. We truly spent the last 50 years dreaming and planning for the country life in a log home. The dream began shortly after our wedding in 1973, in St. Peter’s…
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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? My life, simply put, has not been one of mere coincidence. After close examination, it is abundently clear that it was undeniably created and molded by the hand of God through a blueprint that was developed long before I drew my first breath. My…
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Aunt Paige and my sister Darlene
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If there were a biography about you, what would the title be?
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Sugarloaf and her third husband, Josh, visited Ohmer and Granny in the holler. As soon as they arrived, before introductions were made, Josh saw Ohmer mistreating his mule in the field. Acting the big man and having no idea what he was about to get himself into, he yelled out, “how would you like it…
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Our Dream Home
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Never owning any of the properties they lived on, Granny and Ohmer rarely stayed in one place for very long. Housefires forced them to move at least twice during their lives after their homes burned to the ground. Oddly enough, both occurrences took place when Ohmer had been gone for days at a time on…
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While watching the news of the raid on a church in Minnesota recently by a group of crazed and insensitive citizens, I couldn’t help but recall the time that Ohmer had hidden Evelyn’s Bible from her and forbade her from going to church again. Undeterred, she went to church against his orders the following Sunday.…
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