Author: WDavidJohnson

This Week’s Issue: So that the reader can become more familiar with the characters appearing in Homer’s Point of View, I sometimes ask our key characters for their individual outlooks….

Thanksgiving This Week’s Issue: Homer leaves his cynical view of the holiday season behind and relates his true feelings about Thanksgiving and what it means to Isabel and the staff…

This Week’s Issue: Homer ponders our seeming obsession with instant gratification. He, of course, is a proponent of instant gratification in his world, but he seems to take a jaundiced…

The Great American Calorie Harvest Well, we are rocketing into the month of November, and America’s official day of turkey consumption will soon be here. I don’t mean to offend…

A Few Words From Hank Beavers Hank Beavers, here. It’s easy for a tourist to describe our tiny town in this small Appalachian county as a ‘paradise on earth,’ and…

My Name is Micah Davenport My name is Micah Davenport. I am a long-time friend of Ray Whitlow and his wife, Isabel, and I currently work with Isabel running the…

Part II Dawson’s Gold Previously: Digging and renovation begin after a strong wind partially tumbles the old shed behind the main house. Outside help is brought in to repair the…

The Shed Homer and Isabel live in a house with a history. Built by a young banker for his family in 1896, Faded Glory is indeed a gracious painted lady…

Whatever Happened to Civility? This is a tough subject. In my eleven short years of life here at Faded Glory, I have seen the way you humans treat one another…

“Roll Over, Play Dead!” “Sit; shake hands; roll over; talk to me;” the commands seemed endless as Ms. Ellie Bradshaw’s little dog, Kirby, went through all of his tricks flawlessly…