Add This to the List

Not the Bucket List. The List of Stupid-Things-I’ve-Done-In-My-Life-Because-I-Was-Too-Proud-to-Ask-for-Help. I bought a new bed last week. It was on sale.  A great deal and super-comfy. But I paid for it before I said, “You do deliver to our neighborhood,...

Almost to Glory

So, I have two chapters left on the final revision of my current novel, Thirty Days to Glory. Well, really only a chapter and a half. And, I have an actual deadline. It needs to be polished and ready before a writer’s conference in November where I plan to visit...

I Hope We Pass it On

This is a picture of Nola Serenity. She is perched on a stool her great-great Aunt Lynie once purchased right out from under the small African man who had carved it from a log. I married into the family when Aunt Lynie had already been in Africa nearly three decades....

A Week of Milestones

Last week was big at our house. We celebrated the tenth birthday of our first grandchild and reveled in the memories of his birth and all the deliciousness he has provided for our clan since then. John Michael is the adored elder cousin for everyone else, and he...

The Little Foxes

According to King Solomon, it is the little foxes that ruin the grapevines. (Song of Solomon, 2:15). I’ve often heard this explained as the little sins we think don’t amount to anything that eventually grow up to become snarling predators that eat us...

A Legacy of Spunk

We went to visit my husband’s mother this weekend. She will be ninety in a few weeks, and she is thinking of buying a laptop. Seriously. She spends the summers here in Missouri with her only daughter and then moves to Florida around Thanksgiving to spend the...