Okay, since I heard from many of you that you’d like to hear more of my homespun heritage after last week’s post about my clay-colored roots (life in rural Georgia in the 1960s – be sure to scroll back and read it if you haven’t), I’ll follow up this week with one more ditty about ...
Clay Colored Roots
Been feeling a bit nostalgic lately, so I thought I’d post a personal story about my childhood from my book, Mom NEEDS Chocolate. If you’d like to hear more, please add a comment and I’ll add more book excerpts to my blog posts from time to time. And hey, your community of BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) ...
Story With a Happy Ending
“He’ll give you the shirt off his back.” Heard that before? It’s a good ole Southern maxim I was raised with that didn’t mean much more to me than a quaint way of saying someone was generous. Until it really happened. Our extended family was piling in our SUV last week to go somewhere (behind ...
Sky Dance
I was riding my bike one blazing hot summer afternoon a week or so ago, trying to rustle up a little breeze to pseudo-dry my sweat-swathed skin (I double-dog dare you to say that 3 times fast!). I must say, I wasn’t in the happiest of moods – barely tolerating the scalding sun beating down ...
The Elijah Syndrome
I’ve been requested to pull out my list of Coty Near-Facts of Science once again 😀 . In case you don’t recall, these are theories not yet proven by actual scientific studies, but nevertheless known by women to be true. Hey, I had something else in mind to talk about today, so I’m gonna give ...
Stage Monsters
“The fear of public disgrace never forced me to keep silent” (Job 31:34 CEV). Public speaking. Does that phrase make your liver quiver? It does just that to a lot of people, including me. Yet that’s how I make a living these days. And thankfully, after a long pandemic lull, invitations to speak at church ...
Listening at the Keyhole
I experienced the most heart-warming Grace Note this week. Here’s how it went down. I’ve been slowly but surely cleaning out boxes of my mother’s things that I just wasn’t able to face all at once after she graduated to heaven nearly two years ago. So this week, when I extracted a sheaf of papers, ...
Vanity, Thy Name Ain’t Woman.
I don’t think I’m vain. Do you think I’m vain? Nah. I don’t think I’m vain. But maybe vanity is one of those qualities like humility – the second you say you aren’t it, you’ve just proved that you are. Anyway, I stepped out of the car across the street from my church this morning ...
I Pledge Allegiance
With America’s Independence Day weekend nearly upon us, I’ve been thinking about a word we don’t often use in our everyday vernacular: allegiance. According to Webster, allegiance means loyalty. A quality that does seem to be a smidge anemic in our current It’s-All-About-Me culture. I think back on my childhood when we pledged allegiance to our nation’s ...
Papa’s Rocking Chair
Before I launch into today’s post, I want to say that the winner of my BFF Club drawing will be announced at the end and thanks to those of you BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) who entered! Okay, let me ask you a question, my friend. Comfort: Where do you find it? One of my earliest ...