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If you could un-invent something, what would it be? I would happily uninvent computer games. If you are a grandparent I don’t even have to explain why. Last weekend I was at my third daughter’s house for the weekend her 14 and 12 year old sons never went outside. All they wanted to do was… Read more
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Come up with a crazy business idea. Just imagine you could walk into a square stand alone building made of crystal. The front glass doors open automatically when you walk up to the entrance. When you enter into the doctor’s business lobby behold, there is no waiting room! You are immediately greeted by a friendly… Read more
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What is your mission? Being real with ourselves and others in today’s society is extremely hard! My mission is to encourage, comfort and strengthen others by being honest and truthful about my own failures, triumphs, difficulties, miracles witnessed, challenges, outright pain suffered and mercy received in my 64 years. Speaking as a daughter, sister, wife,… Read more
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Do you remember the lyrics of that song? I do! I remember the fear I felt as a little girl riding in the car while my momma chased after my waward father with my baby brother in tow! Crazy insane people live like this! How? Crazy!! Read more
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My dad was a tall handsome man. One of my very first memories of me and my dad together is of us walking in downtown Gainesville on the square. I had my tiny little hand wrapped around his one long middle finger and my short little legs struggled to keep up with his six-foot, four-inch… Read more
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My family will tell you I have pitched many a “hissy fit.” I have been on the war path more than once and they all have said —“Lord, she done lost her ever-loving mind!!” It’s the craziness gene I inherited from the blessed Looney tribe! Totally opposite of that reaction to anger have been occasions… Read more
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Many years ago my oldest daughter and I went on a mission trip to Jamaica with Mark B Danzey and a bus load of other folks from Bethany United Methodist and Jefferson United Methodist Church. It was an awesome experience to say the least. While there we helped build school rooms and conducted daily Bible… Read more
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Yesterday Memaw and I went to our favorite fast food lunch spot Chic Fil A. We placed our order and selected a booth by a window near the registers so we could people and car watch. Memaw loves looking at trucks and cars and picks out the next one she is going to buy when… Read more
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I had never cared for peanut butter. Never liked peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Nope, give me a banana sandwich instead. One Fall Friday night as elementary school girls will do, I went home with my good friend Camie. We were playing in her bedroom when she goes into the kitchen and comes back with… Read more
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It was summertime in the 1960’s and as was normal me, my brother DeWayne and our cousin Laurie who lived next-door loved playing outside and adventuring together. We were in our backyard when we spotted our doghouse. Now, I can’t remember who made the suggestion but one of us decided it would be a great… Read more
Just living the fairy tale life! NOT!! LOL
For Real, Elaine?! 