What Are You Waiting For?
One of the things I love about the South is how people of all ages call their parents Mama and Daddy. Hearing a man in his forties talk about “Daddy” is a sweet thing. For many years, we’ve heard our…
One of the things I love about the South is how people of all ages call their parents Mama and Daddy. Hearing a man in his forties talk about “Daddy” is a sweet thing. For many years, we’ve heard our…
I love that Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book at age 65. Anna Mary Robertson was another American woman who gained fame late in life. She was well-known when I was a child and I was an admirer of…
After more than three decades of taking in sewing at home and doing alterations for stores, my mother began her working-outside-the-home career when she was sixty, or was it fifty-nine? A local business asked her to come to the store…
Mary Evelyn teaches a Bible class for children on Wednesday nights. My friend–I’ll call her Maggie–and I are two of the half-dozen or so adult helpers in the class. Mary Evelyn needs every one of us for this eclectic group…
I think the first time I saw Miss Joy was one of the many times she portrayed her ancestor at a local historic event. I’ve seen her perform many times since then. She is a regular at our local Veterans…
Today is our baby girl’s birthday. In Proverbs 31:28, children rise up and call their mother blessed, but I rise up and call Mary Evelyn blessed. She is a wonderful mother to two-year-old Clara and one-week-old Wesley, a great wife to…