We’ve not been running the central heat and air for at least a month. While it has been a little warm in the afternoons, the mornings have been downright chilly. Our daughter told me the other day that she would like a heater in her...

The reason for today’s pity party is (drum roll) I forgot my husband’s birthday. He called me at work around mid-morning to ask me today’s date. Thinking he wasn’t near a calendar, I glanced at my calendar and said today’s uhhh your birthday. To my...

A few days ago my husband asked me where all the towels and washcloths were located. I told him I thought we had put up all the laundry so they should be in the cabinet. He told me that there were only a handful in...

Speaking of full-service stations….. When I started attending college back in the late 80’s full-service stations were everywhere. Not once, did I worry about my tires, water or oil being low because I went to a full-service station and they checked those items for me....

Sunday afternoon I drove to Rison, AR to work on a project. Being me, I didn’t check my gas tank before I left. By the time I reached Rison, I was beginning to wonder if I would pass a Shell station before running out of...

We all know somebody that knows everybody. Well, the person I know like that is my younger sister Tammy. She’s known everybody since she was at least 6 years old. After our dad was elected to pastor the church in De Queen and before we...

Have you ever done something so incredibly stupid or clumsy that you really didn’t want anybody to know and yet you felt compelled to tell about it anyhow? I was in my early twenties when I enrolled at HSU. Although beauty wasn’t in my future,...

During my lifetime, bumpers used to be made of durable metal. You could hit all kinds of things and never damage the bumper on the car. Today car bumpers are merely tools used to hide the nuts and bolts. They are easily damaged and expensive...

Moving, yet again. I hate moving. I hate packing. I hate unpacking. I hate cleaning so I can move in and still having to clean so I can move out. I hate everything to do with moving except moving out of bug village. This time...

My dad was the youngest son in a family of six kids. He had no choice but to grow up defending himself. He’s often told us stories that happened to him as a kid and we always enjoyed hearing them. One of my favorite stories...

Gustave and Ike both took down several trees at our house (the one we are renting pictured above). Toby and I are both excited that we don’t have to clean them up! In addition, I’ve discovered FreeCycle… a Yahoo group that allows you to give...

Finally my knee is healing and my arm is beginning to move easier. I can’t believe that once again I fell down. Leon, a gentleman I work with, said he saw me running in the rain and when I got up to the building I...

I believe in healing. I’ve seen things happen that were not physically possible. Most of those things have always happened to other people and while I received a tributary blessing from those miracles, they did not actually happen to me. Growing up in a church...

WoW! Gustave sent us a ton of rain. We were without power for almost 2 days. That translates into no Internet, no TV, no PlayStation, no cooked meals….and worst of all cold showers! Fortunately, we were able to get all 3 acres of our yard...