Holy crap, how did 50 years go by so fast? And how has it been over a year since I’ve blogged? (Side note: I’ve had a lot of kind people tell me they miss reading the blog (one reader refers to the blog posts as “little chats”) and I can’t tell you how much that […]
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share via emailThe Itty Bitty Inn Prompts Great Big Nostalgia
We just returned home from a two-week, bucket-list trip on the West Coast and it was wonderful! There were big moments with spectacular sights, like the enormous trees in Redwood National Forest; there were small, intimate moments where my Mama heart just loved watching the kids hang out together; there were nervous moments, like when […]
Giving Blind Spots a Second Thought
You never noticed it before. Maybe you’ve been looking at this thing or this person for years. Suddenly, someone points out a detail that you missed . . . something obvious, like a symbol hidden (in plain sight) in a logo, how a particular mannerism reminds you of someone. And now you can’t unsee it. […]
“Girl, do you not know ANYTHING about black people?”
In the summer of my Junior year in high school, I attended a “Journalism and Mass Communication” summer camp at Chapel Hill, and my roommate was a black girl named Celia – she was really fun and we hit it off right away. During our time together, I ended up asking her all sorts of […]
Dale Riddle – A Birthday Tribute: The Power of a Picnic and a Portrait of Fearless Faith
My Dad is on the cusp of his 75th birthday. He has always believed he would die young. He’s had this “imminent death” expectation for as long as I can remember, which was a little mystifying as a kid, but now that I am an adult, I can appreciate it. My Dad has always talked […]
Crazy Little Joy-Spreader (that I call, Mama)
This time last year, my Mom was visiting us in Massachusetts and she ended up in the hospital with a heart condition (atrial fibrillation). Thankfully, everything turned out all right, but it was a little scary. Ironically, it is not the fear that stayed with me from that experience – it was the joy that […]
The Beauty in the Blah, Blah, Blah
Maybe I’m revealing a parenting flaw here, but occasionally, the kids bring me a book, and it is a big wordy book that I have neither the time nor energy to read. So I’ll “skip” a little, and leave out a few details, to move things along. The kids can read well enough that I […]
Whatever It Takes
My Dad and brother are currently in Cuba on a mission trip, and that has me reminiscing about my own trip there with Dad, exactly 21 years ago (we were there from January 20th-30th in 1995). There were so many memorable moments that have stayed with me and I’m eternally grateful for the experience. As […]
Living By Faith – A True Example
My parents recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. At the party, my Aunt Phyllis read a statistic that only 5% of couples make it to the Golden Anniversary, so it was quite an achievement and something to celebrate. While I was in NC, I decided to go through some old slides that my Dad took […]
The Episcopal Church and Elastic Waist Pants
As I get older, I feel like I’m always on a quest for comfort. My jeans need to have some “stretch,” my shoes need to have “support,” and my lounging clothes need to be “cozy” (and by lounging clothes I mean . . . all my clothes). There was a time in my past when […]
