Earlier this year, a friend offered his home in Hawaii to our family for a vacation get-away, and on his third offer, hubby finally accepted.  The home is on the big island in Kona. Hubby started working…

It’s a special day. I’m thinking about my daddy today on his birthday.  It’s been almost eight years since he passed away, and I will always miss him. He was THE BEST Papa! He's sporting a Pooh…

It’s been a few weeks since I posted to the blog.  A LOT has happened since then.  My daughter spent a week in D.C. with 45 other young people from around the nation on an American Youth Corp…

Last week, I saw some old friends and got to tell them the good news of my third (unofficially adopted) child.  She’s engaged to be married! The man she’s marrying is an honest-to-goodness answer to prayer—a lot…

If you have three children, then you've probably heard the following joke: When your first child swallows a dime, you head immediately to the emergency room and insist on X-rays and surgical removal of the offending…

I know I missed posting to the blog last week, but here's why: Prominent Night. Each year, our church, First Pentecostal Church of Jackson, hosts a formal affair for the high school seniors. The annual event…

When I moved to Mississippi from Texas in 1999, my real estate agent took it upon herself to not only introduce me to the local food (“Today we go to Old Fannin Mart because Thursdays are…

Here in the South, the saying “April showers bring May flowers” seems to pertain to other places.  We’ve had our share of storms the past three weeks, and it’s pouring rain again this morning, but our flowers…