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Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!

We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your...

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Oct 19, 20201 min read

Design a Stunning Blog

When it comes to design, the Wix blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will grab your reader's attention. Check out...

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Oct 19, 20201 min read

Grow Your Blog Community

With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...

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Oct 19, 20201 min read

A Word To Our Veterans

To the Family Members of: Olin C. Atkins Lawson F. Bryant Willie H. Collins Harvey Hester Morea A. Golden ...

Michelle Dean

Nov 11, 20192 min read

Belonging and Believing

Last month volunteers for Popes Museum served over 400 meals-100 of which went to recent tornado victims. It wasn’t my family alone that...

Michelle Dean

Mar 31, 20192 min read

Checkmating the Facts with Vision

When I walked through the petite French doors of Pope’s Museum, it wasn’t the odor of three years being closed up and the ill treatment...

Michelle Dean

Sep 17, 20183 min read

Faucet failure is not life-defining

Nothing makes me feel more inadequate than a public bathroom faucet. Waving my hands beneath the spigot in directions that emulate an...

Michelle Dean

Apr 4, 20183 min read

Chill Hours

If you have been following my blog this year you know that we have been refurbishing Popes Museum, the home of artist Laura Pope Forester....

Michelle Dean

Feb 28, 20183 min read

Drinking the Poison

My heart is heavy as I watch C-SPAN. It is confused as I read FB. It is perplexed as I hear comments in the library and the local...

Michelle Dean

Feb 1, 20182 min read

Walking in Forgiveness

It has been a month since I have blogged about the state of my grief and perplexity over the onslaught of stories revealing daily...

Michelle Dean

Jan 20, 20183 min read

Blame it on the victim

When the accusations are true, how do we live in freedom? My last blog discussed the need to be mindful of the potential to quickly...

Michelle Dean

Dec 7, 20173 min read

Our Culture's Crucible: A Continuing Tale

In the 1950s, Arthur Miller wrote his famous drama, The Crucible, in response to the Joseph McCarthy hearings where an accusation of...

Michelle Dean

Dec 4, 20173 min read

Being Thankful for Me

Last year I walked by a mirror and saw my mother pass by in the reflection. I was shocked. This year I walked by the mirror and saw my...

Michelle Dean

Nov 20, 20172 min read

Walking out Faith when life hurts

Things around Popes Store Museum have been pretty quiet for the last few weeks. Not much work being done. It is hard. It is hard not...

Michelle Dean

Oct 3, 20172 min read

If The Ceiling has Urine Stains, Is God Involved?

It has been a tough last few weeks on the Popes Store remodeling journey. Or has it? Here are the facts. While putting in a ceiling fan...

Michelle Dean

Sep 8, 20173 min read

The Lion Roars (part 2 of 2)

I am bossy. There, I said it. Contrary to popular believe, I do not feel better having confessed it. Even so, it is true that all my...

Michelle Dean

Aug 24, 20172 min read

Why I Roar (part 1 of 2)

The message of freedom comes from the Roar of Truth. Shying away from it only keeps people locked in chains.

Michelle Dean

Aug 8, 20172 min read

Bones and remodeling

Scattered over our main house are sinks, light fixtures, and cabinets. There are giant holes in walls and tools throughout the main...

Michelle Dean

Jul 16, 20173 min read

America is Good...

NOTE: We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog on life at Popes Store Museum to bring you this Public Service Announcement: In the...

Michelle Dean

Jun 26, 20173 min read

Embers of Truth

We purchased this 1894 house only 6 months ago. While my husband and I plan on raising our family here in what we hope will become a...

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Jun 8, 20172 min read