Love is a forever thing

June 2019 article

Envy, love, sacrifice, divorce, cooperation, partnership, companionship, jealousy, selfishness, giving, understanding, selfless, comforting, complaining, humor, romance, boredom, sadness, loyalty, God-fearing –which of these describe your marriage or the marriage of your parents? If I asked you to circle those you thought would contribute to a good and lasting marriage, would they be the same qualities […]

Muscadines and other tough things

October 2017 Anniston/Gadsden Christian Family Magazine

I thought I had completely lost my mind as I stood in my kitchen with every flat surface (and some not so flat) sticky with muscadine juice, sugar, purple hulls and such. Whatever possessed me to think I wanted to make muscadine preserves? This is not an easy task –  squirt the pulp from the […]

Mistaken Identities

Often things are not what they appear. It’s simply funny when people make blunders in identifying people or situations. Recently, I led a ladies’ retreat/conference for the ladies of Bethany Baptist Church, Horton, Alabama, in Orange Beach. The only male among our twenty-two ladies was our bus driver. On our first night there, we were […]