After two weddings and a root canal, we're enjoying Christmas "light" this year. Yes, enjoying. How freeing to visit Bed Bath & Beyond...

I woke up at 4:35am. Nature called. More than that, the words called. I went back to bed, warm and cozy. But the words wouldn't stop. I...

Do you imagine freedom as wilderness, free-spirited and unencumbered? Certainly you don't imagine freedom hemmed in by fences. Yet fences...

Today I'm waxing poetic with lessons on life, making adjustments, and going with the flow. My daughter got engaged last Christmas. For...

Last night I went to a friend's book signing/dinner party. (Fun!) As a fellow author, I knew several other authors at the event. When...

The Good Life -- that’s what we all want. Yet sometimes the Martyred Life feels like the only way to be spiritually obedient. Is that...

It's summer and the living is easy! Well, not always... I have my swimsuit and flip flops and Southern sweet tea, but no, the living is...

My husband and I celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary on June 4th. Yeah, we got married in 1983. The same year my friend Christel was...

A Beach-Inspired Tale of Two Shells... As I walked along the beach last week, I discovered the points of a large shell poking out of the...