If you studied your Colonial history, you’ve read about a Plymouth Rock outside Boston. Not far south of South Bend, home of the Notre Dame ‘Fighting Irish,’ there’s a Plymouth Indiana. I scoffed when I drove by the high school football stadium that labels itself ‘Home of the Plymouth Rockies.’ Didn’t sound like a ferocious name. My Abilene high school chose a belligerent mascot, the Eagle. Of course, we weren’t original. And I have no
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Chickening Out
When our oldest of three ‘baby girls’ approached age three years, her main vocabulary consisted of questions: Why? How? What’s that? Asking why her Mommy was expanding at the middle, she was told another little sister was inside, on the way. The next day, she shocked the elderly couple who came to dinner when she asked: “Mommy, is the food you’re eating falling on the baby’s head?” Another time