Last weekend Dennis and I were part of a songwriters’ retreat. On Friday morning we were given an assignment – to quietly, individually read a very familiar story and then to answer a few questions that would lead back to the group discussion on spiritual disciplines. Here’s the story we were to read from Luke […]
I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have 3 more classes to take to finish my master’s – 15 hours to go out of the required 36. Trust me, I’m counting down every one. (By the way, I should graduate May 2015 with a Master of Arts in English […]
As a newlywed (almost 40 years ago) I wanted so much to excel in my role as wife. Having grown up on the “Leave To Beaver” model, I desired to learn to be the domestic goddess that June Cleaver would be proud of – minus the string of pearls, the fitted shirtwaist dress with matching […]
(Not long after we moved here, I was asked to submit stories and articles for the White County News, the local weekly newspaper here in Cleveland. Many times I will re-purpose my “Chasing Bimini” blog and they publish it. This week I decided to write something specifically for them. So, now I’m going the other way – sharing this […]
A couple of generations ago, it wasn’t unusual that payment for goods and services was done in trade. In fact, I’ve heard that my grandfather who was a pastor, a schoolteacher, and an insurance agent occasionally got paid in chickens – live chickens. That tradition has pretty much since died out officially. (Now we have direct […]
“Hey Nana, watch this!” If I heard that phrase once over the last two weeks, I’ve heard it a hundred times. Most of my blog buddies know that our sons live on either ends of the country and we live in Georgia, so it’s rare when we all get together. Over the Fourth of July […]
It’s hard to find a church these days that has an organ in its sanctuary. I miss that sound sometimes. Forty years ago, however, every church had an organ of some kind. Some were the big pipe organs but most of them were small electronic ones. It was with this kind of organ that our […]
My daddy was a banker all of my life. And in our little South Alabama town the bank was closed on Thursdays – all day – and half a day on Saturdays. (In fact, the whole town closed down on Thursdays if I remember correctly.) Anyway, if Daddy was going to go fishing (which he […]
Sixteen days ago my husband, Dennis, had his left knee joint replaced. The second one will be done in July. What took years to create such damage through arthritis, and what took an hour to surgically replace (yes, an hour with a marvelous surgeon) is now taking weeks to heal. Oh he’s doing great – […]
I haven’t played in a hand bell choir in many years, but when a Truett student asked me to sub in to the campus bell choir he directs, I had to agree. (I don’t think I was his first choice – maybe his last, but I digress.) It was assigned bells D5 and E5 and […]