Mississippi students just started back to school, but I still consider August to be summer. Temps have dipped into the 60s a few nights here lately, but that’s not fall, y’all. A few months ago, I decided to enroll in an online drawing course by Ian Roberts. He’s an artist…
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Summer Sketches
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 7 & 8
Day 7 My daughter and Hubby have problems sometimes with altitude and motion. Our next big thing was the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. I was able to procure engineer’s row seats for three of us. Hubby insisted that my mom, Liz, and I take those seats although I’d purchased them…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 5 & 6
Day 5 Monday morning was dedicated to the thing that brought us to Colorado Springs—Focus on the Family! My daughter has wanted to visit the headquarters, which houses a fabulous bookstore and “Whit’s End,” the setting of Adventures in Odyssey, one of her all-time favorite broadcasts. We spent several hours…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 3 & 4
Day 3 We decided to start the day exploring the Manitou Cliff Dwellings in nearby Manitou Springs. Visitors can climb all through the well-preserved cliff dwellings and spend hours in the multi-story gift shop. After a tasty lunch at Mediterranean Café in downtown Colorado Springs, we shopped the local spots…
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Colorado Sr Trip, Days 1 & 2
Day 1 We’d found two rooms at the Westin, Denver Airport. After a delicious breakfast at the Fig & Olive, hubby obtained our rental van, and off we went to explore every independent bookstore in Denver for book-loving daughter. We ended up at Union Station’s Tattered Cover. By then, we…
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Colorado Senior Trip
A few weeks ago, our baby girl’s graduation trip (a gift from my mom) started out a little rocky, pun intended. “Arthur,” the first tropical storm of 2026, began threatening our plans to fly to Denver Thursday morning on Wednesday. I was walking out the door to go to Bible…
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Sip & Paint 101
Last weekend, I had the honor of putting together a Paint & Sip class for a ladies’ retreat for my church, First Pentecostal Church of Jackson (Mississippi). Seventy ladies attended! The theme was “Bloom Where You are Planted.” I found free adult coloring pages online and selected three—a simple design…
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A Treasure Hunt
Charging down the hallway, one little fellow excitedly volunteered his assessment of our Treasure Hunt: “It’s better than a video game!” Our Bible Quiz season is coming to a climax with State Finals this Saturday, an event that will determine if we continue quizzing until Nationals in Branson the middle…
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Tour de Mississippi
In addition to his regular job, Hubby is a speaker for several companies. Coincidentally, he had talks scheduled at various places around Mississippi from the end of March through the first couple weeks of April. I decided to go with him just for fun on a “Tour de Mississippi.” First…
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Family Update and Chicago
It’s been about a month since I posted on the blog. It was about that time when a little furry critter “chose” me and Hubby to be her family. Now I have difficulty typing without little polydactyl paws calmly crunching keyboard keys as she gets between me and the screen…