Thumbprints and kisses
On my most favorite of days, the brick and mortar mailbox sentry standing silently and solemnly at the bottom of our steep, winding drive, serves as harbinger of buried treasure. Without knowing what precious gem awaits, I pull open the...
Winner of the iPod Touch
Sometimes, it almost pays not to know me. Take yesterday morning, for example. Using the Random Integer Generator, a number was selected. I counted through the comments and was surprised when I realized I knew the winner. So I recounted,...
Six Important Reasons Traditions Matter
As a young mom juggling two babies during the “Cheerios and Crafts” phase of motherhood, I had no idea the long-range impact of a “yes” answer to a question posed by my mother-in-law 14 years ago: she simply wanted to know if I’d be...
Light reflections
South Carolina, February 2009, my inlaws' bathroom. Valentine décor can be found in just about every corner of the house at our annual Valentine Tea Party. This candle was a surcie I gave to guests a few years ago; a delightful surprise to see it...
I love breakfast. ESPECIALLY when it’s FREE!
Confession: with a title like that, you know I'm nothin' more than six shades of silly, but that's sorta what you get if you cross National Pancake Day with (a local) Customer Appreciation Day. Free breakfast. If you're fortunate...
TennesSEE River
December, 2008. Captured from the Walnut Street Bridge on Chattanooga's North Shore, you'd never know we were hundreds (okay, probably only dozens) of feet above the river. Published for Carmi's weekly feature "Thematic...
81st Academy Awards {So what?!}
I can't decide what this says about me: the only Oscar-nominated film I've seen is in the Best Animated Feature Film category. There are a few I plan to see eventually– Slumdog Millionaire (while waiting to meet the guys from Yanni...
Meant to live!
I loved Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown; it was one of the first CDs I uploaded to my birthday iPod a few years ago, and if it was wearable-outable, I would've worn it out. Though I've been disappointed by their releases since, Switchfoot won...
“…as shaky as…a fiddler on the roof!”
"P r o g r e s s" (she says loosely) next door has resulted in me treading water–a new home under construction and related heavy truck traffic has sliced through the cabling that furnishes our home telephone, tv cable and internet service three...