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Faith and Courage: 2nd Edition -presents the religious persecution of Quakers in Pre-Revolutionary War days of America intertwined with a love story. The characters…
Words By Heart According to family lore, my first public speaking experience was in our little one-room church in Kentucky when I was three…
Reflections from the Blue Rocking Chair by Joyce Ray Wheeler PROLOGUE: Just when my grandchildren were beginning to outgrow their early childhood, I was…
Cute story reveals a little about life in the 1950s..... China Teardrops by Joyce Ray Wheeler It was September of the year 1953. A…
Aftermath by Joyce Ray Wheeler My newest dictionary simply defines "aftermath" as "results or consequences" with the idea being that the consequences are not…
JUST LIKE MINE By Joyce Ray Wheeler We were so young in 1953 when my husband became a mathematics professor at Howard College…
Dogs the Wheeler family has loved have a strange list of names. First was Trigonometry, a math hound; Lady, a black dachshund named for…
I remember cutting out dresses for my paper dolls too. This story and video will bring back memories. A Paper Doll To Call My…
Some beautiful songs of World War II - Do you remember these? SONGS OF WORLD WAR II written August 2009By Joyce Ray Wheeler…
The Way We Were by Joyce Ray Wheeler Edmonson County in rural Kentucky where I grew up was known as the poorest county in…
Christmas and Bon Ami May I explain that I’m not referring to the Bon Ami that we see on our grocery shelves today? That’s…
Small Churches I have loved by Joyce Ray Wheeler Lowndesboro Baptist Church, Lowndesboro, Alabama ca. 1888 - with two doors for men and women…
(Remembering Joyce Ray Wheeler who was a frequent contributor of wonderful stories to AP. I especially liked this heartwarming one. Joyce Ray Wheeler passed away November…
Paid in full, this is hard to do nowadays by Joyce Ray Wheeler When we moved to Birmingham in 1953 we rented an old…
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