McKinney

I finally got to make the long trip to the city I was born in. It's a very rural place, but the downtown area looks great with different shops everywhere. They converted the old courthouse into a performing arts center, and it looks like it came out of "Hill Valley" from "Back to the Future".

Seriously, it's important for me to really discover what life was like before I was born. I usually learn best by seeing things, and if McKinney can be restored from nothing into something, maybe I can too?

We got to see "Central Baptist Church" were my father was the pastor who preached so hard that his suit was covered in sweat. My mom said he looked like he had been in the rain every Sunday.

It was fun hearing stories about Andy, Ben, and my sister Evelyn when they were all very young. I had no clue that one of my older siblings had no desire to be a preacher. I'll give you three guesses.

Although we got to see some great shops, and even ventured on further to other cities to see where we lived in Allen, and Lewisville. I still have yet to find the exact location of Mitchell Maternity Clinic. I took a couple of "photographs", yes that word does still exist, of some books to look up at the local library.

I know that it doesn't matter to somebody else, but it means something to me to find this patch of earth. It's were I started, and God willing, it's where I want to start all over again.