A dear friend of mine took a not so flattering photo of me at an event we both attended last fall, and posted it to Facebook, “tagging” me in it. Now I should be angry with her but I am not, and here’s why. I think she suffers from the Lylas Syndrome, and that is [...]

We get a good hearty snow in Jackson Mississippi about once every 30 years. So when we got 4 inches last weekend, most of our kids had never experienced such wonder and delight! We built a snowman in our yard. He was a little lopsided and he had a funny shaped head. I named him [...]

I moved in to my first little house just over a decade ago, you see.My mother purchased an Apple Tree for me. We planted it outside the kitchen window.The perfect view of my new tree. It was a Granny Smith Tree but we called it a Nana Tree. It grew quite well and flourished. It came to be [...]

Growing up during the Cold War, I was ever mindful that at any time, our President could authorize someone to press a red button somewhere and effectively start Armageddon.  Not that it was a constant worry, but it was there, looming, in the back of my “panic brain”, that there were maybe only a few [...]