When people you love make choices you hate
The anguish in her voice broke my heart. She had just confirmed her father's affair with another woman after months of speculation, separation and conversation. Hers is a version of the same story I've heard before from others I love, and it...
When I’m scattered and smothered I give you bigger and better
When I'm quiet on the blog, it usually means one of two things: Life offline wants more of my attention. ~ or ~ I'm writing elsewhere. As a regular contributor to (in)courage, Simple Mom and Deeper Story's family channel, there's always a...
Better than free kittens because you can eat ’em (do YOU know what national holidays are Friday & Monday?)
In case you were unaware, I feel it is my civic duty to alert you to Very Important Things you might otherwise miss. Of course it's near impossible to miss a blasted thing these days with the Twitter and the Facebook SCREAMING AT YOU EVERY SECOND if you...
Reason to Celebrate: A Salty & Sweet Giveaway!
Sophie Hudson speaks my language: Southern, Story and Sass. Mounds and mountains of all three. And she understands and rightly uses ALL CAPS (and parenthetical asides) EXACTLY and APPROPRIATELY when necessary to maximize effect....
Golden crumbs, elephants and ponies
I'm not sure when I first noticed the DNA of my family's footsteps, but it was when I was recovering in our downstairs guestroom with my day-after-Christmas knee injury when my notice gave way to affection. What a peculiar thing to appreciate - like,...
Marriage advice (the kind that’s hard to hear…)
We've been married 25 years, a quarter century, over half our lives. No matter how you phrase it, especially in our culture of divorce-made-easy, that's a looong time. I like how my friend Patsy Clairmont puts it, "We've survived each...
We interrupt this blog to bring you a PSA for those who (n)ever text and drive (which pretty much you & me)
I'm probably a teen's worst nightmare when it comes to driving: my mantra to my own children when they were of legal age to get their permit (and, later, their license): A car in the hands of a driver is a loaded weapon. They understand the depth and...
The happiest celebration of them all (pssst–help me surprise HIM!!)
Raising children well is challenging under the best of circumstances. Not too terribly long ago I was a mom with three babies under the age of five, and there were some days I wasn't sure I'd make it to the next. They needed me or wanted me for...