Readers of Terry's Column React

Dear Terry: How I wish I knew you! Your fine piece in this morning’s paper strikes home. You are in the big leagues when you remind us of E.B. White and William Strunk. Your handling of Lincoln’s address is beautiful. Thanks for your gift, Terry. I enjoy all your columns.

Terry: After gleaning pleasure from yet another one of your articles, I felt compelled to write. Your writing style is such a refreshing change. Just wanted to let you know that you are making quite a difference. Looking forward to more - and thanks!

Dear Terry: I have thoroughly enjoyed your column but today’s propelled me toward this bit of fan-mail. Thanks for a piece of writing that has lifted my heart and reminded me that God is in the details.

Dear Terry: I did love your column about death yesterday. I cut out the ones which touch me specially, and send them to a friend in California. I wonder how many other people are lighted up as I am by them. Thanks, and don't stop!

Terry: Do me a favor: Tell your parents for me they did one heck of a job. You are such a gift to this old world. I thank you for sharing so much through the written word, for truly, you have touched me, deeply and often.

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First Things First

Last week, while standing in a crowd of 30,000 in Harvard Yard to see one of our kids flip her tassel and earn her Master’s degree, I used my ‘smart phone’ to quick go on Facebook and say how happy I felt... Read More

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It's All So Hard

People are just overwhelmed these days.

I know a couple who have taken to throwing their mail away unopened they feel so overwhelmed... Read More

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Ah The Year-End Ceremonies!

Here comes June, with the young folks’ graduations and their proms, their weddings and their music recitals.

Ah those year-end recitals, which have the power to stop the very sun in the sky, as God did for Joshua. At your average music recital, men begin to think they... Read More

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Turn Around

Maybe that funny bumper sticker is right and the Hokey Pokey really is what it’s all about.

You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around - and next thing you know 40 years have passed, your parallel parking skills are shot and you’re getting so deaf you’re turning... Read More

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Full of Themselves...

Here’s ONE reason more people don’t go to their college reunions: they’re totally put off by the “Personals” section in their alumni magazines – because who can keep up with the paragons of desirability baiting the hook in the back pages of these glossy rags?... Read More

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Fuelin' Up

It was the end of a long work day and I was running on empty when I found myself in a golf cart at a garden center, riding out to look at baby trees.

The salesperson was so cheerful though that his mood proved contagious, and in no time... Read More

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Toothsome

I miss teeth. More and more, people don’t have them – real ones, I mean.
 
Celebrities sure don’t. Instead, they have these Chiclet-y glass things such as the world’s fanciest hotels use in the bathrooms of their penthouse suites... Read More

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