Between the Covers
This year, I took the goodreads challenge and set a goal to read 50 books. I surpassed that thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Turns out...

Don't let the door hitcha, 2020
Lawd...have we ever wanted a year to end more than this one? I can't even stand to see my Facebook memories. Last Christmas we were in...

Public School
I want to tell you what it was like to go to public school in the late 70s. In Mississippi. My family moved to Long Beach, Mississippi,...
My Orphaned Friend - Chapter 1
Chip started watching a movie called Queen's Gambit about an orphan girl who becomes a chess champion. "You'll like this," he told me....

I Have Opinions on...Books
Growing up, I was not the book reader in my family. That was my older sister. I was the "talented one." The singer. I still read books...

Runnin' with the Devil
This is a picture of me in 1985: Okay, no. That's actually Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen in 1984. But to be fair, it took a...

Selflessness
I have a theory about selflessness, and it is illustrated through grocery carts. Grocery carts are the manifestation of whether we're...

Drive & Listen
I found an app called Drive and Listen that lets you drive through cities around the world while listening to local radio. It has done...

What Do You Value?
Back in my blogging heyday, I was lucky enough to see Brene Brown speak, at Blissdom (Find Your Bliss!) in Nashville in 2011. She talked...

What's in the News?
One of the ways that I try to control my anxiety is by limiting my exposure to the news. I am a J-school grad so I can't just bury my...