Articles by Janice Crow

What My Brother Taught Me When I was a kid, I would never have thought of my brother, Bill, as a teacher.  He was not a stellar student and was not particularly fond of school.  […]

There are a lot of memories that come rushing in when I think about the National Quartet Convention…some great, some not so great, but all indelibly etched in my mind. Some of those memories go […]

The “God Bless You Testimony Service”……whose idea was this? I’d love to know who thought it would be a great idea to ambush an unsuspecting mid-week service congregant and ask him or her to jump […]

When you think back over your life, how many of your memories involve sound? Probably way more than you imagine. I was thinking about that the other day as I drove past the site of […]

I’m not a big clothes hound….at least not now.  Time was when I “needed” matching purse and shoes, appropriate jewelry  and properly painted nails to feel put together.  A teenage friend years ago called me […]

It all started out so well. Creating a decorative box to put valentines in seemed like a worthy endeavor. I still don’t know how I mustered the courage to raise my hand, and the outcome […]

As far back as I can remember, I’ve heard the phrase, “Well, back to the old drawing board”. I don’t think anyone ever explained it to me as a child, but somehow I just understood […]

My hubby, Bruce, has a saying about Christmases when we were young. He says, “They remember better than they lived.” That’s a kind way to tell me I romanticize too much the era of our […]

Trees. Yeah, we see you….all decked out in red, yellow and orange. There is no doubt, you can be absolutely beautiful. What attention hounds you are! But then again I suppose you have a right […]