Inspiration

How many times have you felt so close to amazing? Like your hair was just almost perfect Or your clothes were fitting just a little looser Or the house was basically clean Or your To Do list was all checked off… even the things on the list that you added just so you could “check…

When Saturday hands you a pink lemonade and grape snow cone with a red “Dubble Bubble” gum ball perched solidly on top… What’s a girl to do? Well you do what any self-respecting girl would do and take two white plastic spoons and four paper napkins (or 16) from the condiment shelf on the snow…

Raise your right hand if everything you planned for your life turned out like you expected. Now, bend your other arm across the top of your head and grab your right elbow with your left hand while shaking your right palm in the air. Got that? Awesome! Now shake your right hand really quickly and…

Do you like to sit on the porch while it rains? You do? Oh good! Then let me pull one of those rockers over here by me. Let’s talk. I lit a pungent candle in hopes of keeping the mosquitoes at bay…well several candles actually. The frogs are belting out their guttural call from somewhere near the…

Dawn still dusted the sky as our vehicle eased from the garage. A film of rain sprinkles covered the windshield as soon as it cleared the protection of the moving door. And that man of mine, the one with just possibly the most beautiful tenor voice this side of heaven, begin to sing, “Raindrops keep falling on my head.” Hearing…

Marrying at the age of 19 is young measured by today’s standards, but in 1936, it was just perfect for my mother.  My daddy, age 21, took mother as his bride and they became a team. Faithful to each other for 61 years, they shared the highs and lows of marriage and family and faith. This photo taken in…

So after listening for a few minutes to all the banter about how the world is going someplace… really fast… my daughter, in all her early teenage wisdom and humor, lifted her index finger, and quietly with a cheerful tone in her voice said, “But the Phoenix is rising!” Now you probably know without me…

I don’t know a pretty way to say this, however,  there was a time I  dreaded to come home because an elderly individual began to encroach on our sacred place (our home) and our family became very insecure with his tactics and negative advances. I’m just gonna gulp and blurt out that our home wasn’t an emotional…