I picked up a fan-shaped leaf. It’s from the ginkgo tree. This time of year they turn golden. One day it’s full of gold; the next day,...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this is November. Soooo, I’m late—or am I? Actually, I have a reason for making this blog a...

Friday, October 30, 2020 Four days of rain where we live. It affects us. No doubt, the earth needs the water, and we need the...

David Budbill wrote a short poem that can be found in his poetry book Happy Life. A Certain Slant of Light A certain slant of light this...

My earliest teachers: my mama and my daddy, Grandma Guffey, Aunt Effie, Aunt Mary Ellen, siblings, too—my older brother, for sure. We...

I’m a big picture person. Not a detail person. It’s a gift and a curse. Names, technology, science, systems elude me. But when it comes...

When I was a kid, my heroes were Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Superman, Mighty Mouse. They were the good guys in movies, cartoons,...

A new season. I’m ready for the trees to do their thing. I’m ready for color. I’m ready. There’s something almost musical about the trees...

I’ve been sorting thoughts and laundry. After weeks of prayer and contemplation, I’ve concluded that I need to take a three-month break...

Many of us are natural storytellers. I sit and listen to birds tell their stories, too. Only they sing them. Today had already been...