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The Grandfathers Who Taught Me How to Live

July 25, 2026 by C.J.

Grandpa Barney's birthday a couple of years ago

Two men born twenty-one days apart in the summer of 1923. Two boys shaped by the Great Depression. Two grandfathers who taught me that a good life is built less by extraordinary moments than by showing up for the ordinary ones. There are certain coincidences in a family that do not seem particularly remarkable when … Read more

Grandpa Barney’s Papillion: The Hometown That Raised Me

July 17, 2026 by C.J.

Helping out Grandma Barney with hometown stewardship

There are places that athat are written into your bones. For me, that place is Papillion, Nebraska. It is the place where I was born, and raised. The place where I learned what it meant to belong to a community. Even if I didn’t yet have the words to explain it. And, by the grace … Read more

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