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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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.