Bonnie's Books

The long-ago Saturday that is on my mind today was February 28, 1959.  Let's see, 2026 minus 1959 is 67 years ago.  That's the day I...

Summer officially began last night at 9:42 p.m.  Let me tell you a story about the change from spring to summer in 1963, exactly 62 years ag...

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America ~ by Jane Borden, 2025, cultural anthropology, 304 pages This colorful and enlightening...

Bonnie, Bill, and Ann on East 26th Street in Chattanooga around 1949  —  or maybe 1950.  We're all dressed up, so it may be Easter Sunda...

This family photo was taken in 2011.  I also posted it  HERE .  I am standing next to my grandson; my daughter and my son (and his wife) are...

Covid-19 My sister's son died of Covid on January 1st of this year, and yesterday my brother's son posted on Facebdook: "Prayer...

Clawdia was so happy when it warmed up enough Thursday to open the windows to the sunny day.  She jumped up into her favorite window to bath...

This must be an older chart, since I found a younger generation (see below). There are seven human generations alive right now: Greate...

While reading Chapter 5 of Trevor Noah's Born a Crime , I was brought up short by his memory of getting a set of encyclopedias. ...

Chattanooga telephone directory, September 1944 A woman named Cathy posted this picture in the "You Know You're From Chattanoog...

Three of my great-grandchildren today, with their mom. And the youngest fought it all the way.

Write about an experience from childhood that has stuck with me?  Okay.  I could combine this with a page from Michelle Obama's 2019 b...

It's an odd feeling to run across a random old photo of my mother online.  My brother had kept up with a neighbor from our childhood o...

Today is my mother's 101st birthday.  I took this picture of her in 1987, when we moved into my first parsonage after seminary.  The b...

My dad was born on October 9, 1918.  That's one hundred years ago today.  This photo was probably taken in 1945 or late 1944, when he ...

BOOKS Two weeks ago, Jürgen Moltmann wrote these words for a book about his theology by Stephen D. Morrison : I have endeavored to foll...

FRIENDS This is "my" usual table when I eat dinner here at the Crown Center.  I wasn't there when they celebrated Cardinals...

April foolishness This is a crazy, mixed-up weekend, with yesterday being the first day of Passover and today being both Easter and Ap...

Stephen Hawking:   "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."  I'm trying to finish a couple of library books due bac...