A Woman of Her Words

A true movie buff could not let time pass without including an homage to Burt Reynolds. He was an adopted Southern boy, having moved from...

Elena: Yes, were you looking for something? Alejandro: A sense of the miraculous in everyday life. The Mask of Zorro, 1998 Alejandro and...

I have just made it through a four-day weekend of basic "alone-ness." Except for church I did not venture out this past Labor Day...

We had the Lord’s Supper at Church last Sunday, and it reminded me of something I wrote a long time ago. I watched the six men who...

If Only . . . It was on again today, and I knew I would watch Pillow Talk as I have probably 15 times or more when I hit record. Turner...

Be All That You Can Be - -BELIEVE! I can still recall the rough feel of those hexagonal pieces of stone. We had lugged them from some...

Here are just a few of my favorite coffee quotes: You should know that before 10 am, no matter what the question is, my answer is always...

I love that song, "You Gotta Have Heart," From the musical Damn Yankees. But that does not surprise anyone who knows me well. I have...

“One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.” Aldous Huxley A “Hand Out” When your spouse or any other loved one dies,...

“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage,...

Dictionary.com analyzes the American idiom, “waste not, want not” as follows: “Wise use of one's resources will keep one from poverty....

No, not a true tree, but the best tree of all--my family tree! I have found a time portal in my computer, and I often wander off there...

July 19, 2018 -- on this day 44 years ago, I was experiencing one of Life’s greatest miracles . . . childbirth. Yep, I was in another...

I was seven when I was informed that I had polio, and from that point on my life was never the same. I became a mini poster girl for my...

A Slice of Summer Consider this a warning from a Georgia gal, one who lives in "The Peach State." To convey my summer warning, I must...

To quote Wikipedia, "angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and...

Cornbread and Bitter Greens I sat sulking and skulking in the privet hedge right behind the garage, and I could smell the wafting aroma...

Happy 4th of July to any and all who might find their way to my blog today. I hope your day is peaceful and full of good times with...

This is one of many compositions that came in the middle of the night when I could not sleep because my husband had died. As I said in...

Flag on the Play—Offensive Holding Some people come into the world marked for a unique destiny. Perhaps it is in their genes, perhaps it...