Sep 19, 2018 | Personal Blog
Kids can be masters at avoiding things. If you have children, this will not be a surprise to you. Unless you have a rare bird child, whose keeps his plumage preened perfectly, who puts on her bird pants before breakfast without spending fifteen minutes making trick...
Aug 31, 2018 | Personal Blog
A mystery neighbor left us a letter in our mailbox today. When I first opened the box and saw it there, a piece of notebook paper scribbled in pen, folded on top of our mail, I thought, Uh oh. A couple of months after we first moved in, one of our neighbors (who has...
Aug 24, 2018 | Personal Blog
I saw God yesterday. I was sitting at a picnic table when it happened, eating a tikki masala chicken taco with a bunch of women ministers. We sat there together in the sunshine, and as a random yellow jacket buzzed around and teams of cicadas chirped at each other...
Aug 17, 2018 | Personal Blog
So yeah, I did a hard thing today. You might do it all the time and think it’s no big deal, but it sure was big for me. It made me sweat and change my clothes twice and growl at my husband (not an eyes-batting-come- hither growl, mind you, but a...
Aug 10, 2018 | Personal Blog
Hey y’all! Within the next two weeks, several people I love will be putting on their big girl panties and big boy briefs, ripping out their own hearts and taking their babies to college. So I thought I’d replay the freak...
Aug 1, 2018 | Personal Blog
Careful now! If you stand still very long in a South Carolina field, a kudzu vine just might curl its little fingers around your ankles, shimmy up your legs and arms and dress you up in a kudzu suit from head to toe! Take a good look at the photo and see what I mean....