>This is a big week for feast days of well-known and beloved Orthodox Saints. December 4 is the feast day…
>I visited my brother’s grave today, in Ridgeland, Mississippi. December 1 is Mike’s birthday. He would be 59 years old,…
> Today is my baby’s 26th birthday. But Beth was almost three when she came to us from South Korea,…
>In Frank Turner Hollon’s blurb for Suzanne Hudson’s collection of short stories, Opposable Thumbs, he describes a powerful element that’s…
>100 years ago, in 1908, 500 “free thinking people” seeking “their own special utopia” established the town of Fairhope, Alabama…
>When I moved my mother from one nursing home to another a week ago (down in Jackson, Mississippi) more than…
>The Eagles “Long Road Out of Eden Tour” stopped in Memphis last night, and my husband (Eagles fan from the…
>Today is the first day of the Nativity Fast for Orthodox Christians. It’s kind of like Great Lent, the forty…
>It’s been a difficult month for my eighty-year-old mother. If you’ve been following my blog, you know she fell and…
>When my 31-year-old son, Jonathan, (the one who flies helicopters for the Army now) was about four, my parents lived…