Our sweet outdoor kitty, not much older than a kitten herself, suddenly became a mama- not that she didn't know it - but rather it came as a surprise to us. At 10:30 am there was one. By 11:52, two more. Tiny things that barely looked like cats according to the boy who witnessed the… Continue reading How to Answer When Creation Comes to Call
{for part one, click here... seems I had a lot to say on the same topic 2 years ago...!} Some mornings I stand in front of the closet for way too long contemplating what to wear. It's not that nothing fits, it's just that nothing seems to fit together. I tell myself I'm lacking some… Continue reading When Nothing Fits {part 2}
It's Sunday morning circa 1987 and I can see my Grandma Rue, standing at the stove in a flowered smock dolloping hush puppy batter into hot oil. Other simmering pots hold collards and a picnic shoulder, green beans, butter beans and potatoes. On some visits, mom goes with Granddaddy to church. Growing up in tobacco territory, my… Continue reading The Lost Art of Sunday Dinner
As I pulled on my awkward snow boots last week- the ones that gave me blisters in Niagara Falls all those years ago but I have yet to replace- I thought about the dark purple and grey fur lined pair I wore everywhere when I was a kid. Spring, fall, winter, summer- it didn't matter. They… Continue reading Fashioning a Life of Wisdom
Against better judgment, I paid the nice lady two dollars for the pitiful thing at an estate sale last fall. Contained in a tiny red pot I carted this forlorn Christmas cactus home forgetting that I do not possess the greenest of thumbs. Remember the Mother's Day orchid? How about the hydrangea bush languishing in the front yard? One… Continue reading Cultivating the Treasures of a New Year
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