I did it. Yep. No denying it because I surely blew it. Again. I opened my big mouth when I shouldn’t have and, in the guise of an urgent prayer request, repeated the private need that a dearly loved sister in Christ I’ll call Marnie had confided in me, to someone I was sure would “keep ...
Resisting the Snark Bait
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 ...