With the New Year underway, most people are thinking about goals and resolutions. We eagerly jump on board a new diet, an exercise routine, and organizing clutter. We make a list of things we want to accomplish so we can be a better person. It reminds me of the new roundabout that was introduced in […]
Treasured
I planted my feet firmly, and lifted my young cheek bravely as my grandmother approached. It was time to think fast. She happily leaned over and began her perpetual rapid-fire cheek kisses as I desperately tried to keep count in my mind. My grandmother was the queen of rapid-fire cheek kissing, and all of her […]
Digging Up New Wells
The other day I was out and about town taking my kids to one of their activities and my youngest son became extremely thirsty. His first reaction when I said we didn’t have anything in the car was to ask me to pull into a QT and just grab him an extra- large icee. […]
Airing Out Our Dirty Laundry: The Ultimate Stain Removal
“Don’t air out your dirty laundry in public.” Have you ever heard of this saying? If you are from the South like me, then you may have even grown up hearing this witty expression conveying the need for a bridled tongue behind a zipped lip and sealed with a demure pleasant smile. There is a […]
After the Storm
The storm is over! Finally the rain has stopped, but the aftermath is devastation in some areas of North and South Carolina. We kept hearing the weather reports, but we noticed that no one really knew exactly what would happen such as how severe the hurricane may be and where exactly it would make landfall. […]
Garden Of My Heart
Oh, how I love to look at the landscape in “my neck of the woods” to see farmers in tractors breaking up the ground to plant a new crop. The ground is hard, but the disc on the blade of the machine breaks up the ground while back and forth the tractor […]