Hospitality, Vol. 27, No. 3 Editor’s note: Angola Bound II was first published in Journal for Preachers, Volume XXXI, Number 1, Advent, 2007. St. Francisville, Louisiana 8:30 AM Central Time Birdman Books and Coffee Yesterday Murphy and I departed the Three V Motor Court (the oldest motor lodge in America) for the [...]
January 1, 2002 – 2:04 pm
Hospitality Vol. 21, no.1 Recently I knelt beside Murphy’s bed and held her hand; I helped her breathe, deeply and regularly, as I did 22 years ago when Hannah came reluctantly from womb to world. Five times the needle was plunged deep into her back. Pain and hope battled all over the bed [...]
Hospitality vol. 19, no. 6 The morning is crisp and clear. Red Buds shiver and Dogwoods dance along the interstate as the 18-wheelers define the meaning of American life. (or is it death?) The teamsters are carrying promises and goods at the fastest speed possible while consumers wait at the mall doors for the [...]
August 1, 1996 – 10:16 pm
Hospitality vol. 15, no. I Harold Amasa Loring and Mary Alice Nuessner finished the third set before 8:00 a.m. Bouncing on the balls of their feet, Buster, as he was known affectionately in the South Carolina low country, and Mary turned from the court and headed home. While she scrambled eggs and [...]
January 1, 1988 – 3:44 pm
Hospitality vol. 7, no. 1 On March 18, 1940, the snow was falling in Gastonia, North Carolina-unusual in the South as crocuses already were cracking their way through the winter-dead earth. A young woman went into labor that morning as she leaned over the old stove making jellies. Emmie Zeigler Loring, hospital administrator and [...]
Hospitality vol. 5, no. 4 The city eats me alive I am John the Baptist with my severed head brought in on a silver platter ain’t death beautiful? Porter Smith is being eaten alive by cancer, hungry cells are racing from his air-starved lungs into his rigid neck. He lies in bed at Georgia waiting [...]
