Somehow the Assistant to the Dean of the Bible College David Roth got in contact with a pastor in New York named Paul McCardel. His son Bruce was the assistant pastor of All Nations Bible Baptist Church in Queens, NY. Paul was from Florida I think and he moved to NY to pastor. His son [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Meredith and Matthew were beautiful children. I loved them very much. They were ideal. I don’t remember any problems out of them. We had lots of fun together. I remember one time Matthew was eating some food from a paper plate on a metal folded chair at the Academy of the Arts. An African-American kid [...]
I was excited about having children. There was also a nagging drawback as well. That drawback still abides a bit today. The fact is that I am much older than I was when my first children were born. Tristen was born when I was 42. Meredith was born when I was 22. That is a [...]
I was looking on a baby name website one night in the kitchen at our 1611 house. It was a Latin name website I think, maybe Greek. I can’t remember. Anyway I began in the “A’s” and I was going to work my way through the alphabet. I was reading out the names to Lucia. [...]
We were watching a Josh Groban DVD and when they rolled the credits we saw a name that we both liked. We didn’t know how to pronounce it, what it meant and what gender it was for. The name was Haydn. It looked cool on the screen as they were rolling the credits. I found [...]
Tristen was named after Mama Grant’s brother who died in 1921. He was 21 years old. Mama Grant, my grandmother, was born in 1906 and she died in 2005. She would have been 99 years old on December 26 of ’06 if she had not died in October. She talked about Tristan, her brother, all [...]
Matthew Justin was born on December 12, 1983. The Dallas Cowboys were playing the Washington Redskins that day. As an immature 22 year old I was torn between going to the delivery room and keeping up with the game. Fortunately the game was on a TV not too far from the delivery room. Also in [...]
Meredith Nicole Thomas was born on September 03, 1981. She was named after Meredith Baxter Birney, a movie actress I was infatuated with. Her mother’s water broke late one night while I was watching Quincy, the medical show with Jack Klugman. I asked her if we could wait till the show was over before we [...]
