Kitchen Capers
We're on a journey to transform my home into Gulf-Coastal Grandmother fishing-cabin chic. First stop: The Kitchen. This is what we...
[Gulf] Coastal Grandmother
I found myself here, at an intersection in life that presented an opportunity for me to forge a new path. Create the New Kalisa....
Her Story
Read here first She was 55 years old going into the third year of the world-wide pandemic. She worried about plenty of things but cancer...
Protagonist & Narrator
"We experience our life as a story, of which we are both protagonists and narrators..." My local hospital system has apparently taken a...
Time is Fleeting
Today is my mom's 80th birthday. My husband got to experience both of his parents' 80ths but my dad died in his 70s when I was still in...
Retreat
Sometimes when I can't take anymore news of greed and evil and hate, I go for a walk. I walk out into the woods. Among the pines and wild...
It's a Mystery
All this week I've had mill-wide meetings at work. I've been leaving at 6 a.m. and getting home at 7 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Chip texted...
Gosh Almighty
I don't tell people this, but when I was a senior in high school, I actually applied to Ole Miss. I think I was hoping to reinvent myself...
They Find Us
Years (decades) ago, when my son was maybe 6 or 7, a dog showed up at our house. He had thick white fur and a tag that said his name was...
Club Scene
I've been listening to a lot of 1st Wave satellite radio lately and it keeps reminding me of two specific club memories of my youth. The...