If you’ve read my blog for long you probably already know about Yanci (pronounced Jahn’-see). She’s famous.
What the world hasn’t heard about until now is how God used her to change her dad’s life. How God worked through and with all of us to bring about that change.
Because typing one-handed is not my favorite… 
Archive for 2010
Yanci Is Famous…Again
Steelers Versus Vols
My nephew Phillip is the director of the cousins. His mind is always swirling with creative schemes: stuff to film, build, act out, paint…
But the other boys – Yeneneh (12), Gresham & Nathaniel (8) – would often rather play soccer or football than film, build, act or paint. This is usually the divide – Phillip’s… 
From My Left Hand To You
Tuesday night I was sitting at my desk upstairs when I heard my youngest scream downstairs in the den. Dads instinctively know the difference between a he’s-not-sharing-with-me scream, an I-merely-stubbed-my-toe-but-am-going-for-the-Oscar scream and the dreaded I-was-just-tossed-into-a-hard-piece-of-furniture-by-my-big-brother scream. What I heard was the latter variety.
Gresham (eight) had hoisted Penelope (five) in the air on the soles of… 
Storytime With Papa
The best stories are true.
When my in-laws come for a visit my father-in-law tells the kids “little Papa” stories every night before bed: Tales from his childhood in Bowie Courts, a segregated government housing project in Texarkana, Tx where people named “Anteater” lived and kids wore clothes sewn from potato sacks and turned bees into… 


