Two events were separated by 15 hours and less than two miles, and I attended (and thoroughly enjoyed) them both. Last Friday night, we went to hear the Atlanta Symphony pay musical tribute to film score composer extraordinaire John Williams. It was an incredible experience! Then Saturday, we went to Bobby Dodd Stadium to watch […]
Simple. It was one of the words I heard used often during a recent weekend spent with old friends from high school. “Those were simple times.” “We had simple goals.” “I simply loved that moment in my life.” As my friends and I reminisced about Friday night football games, Sunday morning church, family dinners, and […]
Almost every morning I open my bedroom curtains and behold the magnificent layers of mountains, hills, and valleys that seem to go on forever. However, sometimes like this morning, a thick fog is hanging across my backdrop, and I can see nothing but a white mist. Thank goodness most of the time the fog doesn’t […]
It’s been a hot summer here in the North Georgia Mountains. At times during the heat I resurrected and relished memories of the place where, as a child, I learned to swim. It was called Lake Geneva, a public entertainment complex just out of the city limits with a pool that was fed by the […]
There were two speeds. Slow and comatose. Two temperatures. Hot and hot with a breeze. In my original post in this blog “Chasing Bimini”, which began February 2012, I introduced the notion that I had been looking for the perfect destination in life for a long time. I imagined that place to be Bimini, which at first I […]
It’s that time again! Churches all over the globe are planning an event we know as Vacation Bible School. VBS (as it’s been called for over a century in America) is alive and well, and still doing what it was originally designed to do: teach children the Bible. I fondly remember VBS at my home […]
A TV ad in the ’80’s for instant coffee instructed us to “Celebrate the Moments of Our Lives.” I’ve never been a fan myself of the drink mix they advertised, but I still like their slogan—and I’m learning how to celebrate “moments” as I’ve gotten older. Last weekend, I celebrated the receipt of my Master’s degree […]
I was a late bloomer. When and where I started to school there was no public kindergarten, so my first school experience was first grade. I began in Florida where children had to be six-years-old by January 1st in order to be eligible. My early December birthday made me a candidate. But when I began […]
I was in the 6th grade when my daddy summoned me out of Sunday School class one Sunday. I thought I was in trouble! Waiting out in the hallway was Bro. Dewitt Pickering, the minister of music at my church, and he said he needed a favor. The main pianist had called in sick and […]
On February 9th I started my last class for my master’s degree in English and Creative Writing. The class is a capstone in which I will write and submit my master’s thesis. Students in the class have a choice of constructing an anthology of adapted writings already submitted in this program with additional cohesive transitions, […]