tales of a jesus-loving writer, her adorable little fam jam, the world's most fabulous weenie dog, grace, travel, love, life, and dealing with a rare and incurable autoimmune disease.
Way back in 1997, when I graduated high school, I wanted to go to Mississippi State - and had made several visits and had scholarships - but life got in the way and it just didn't work out. I was crushed. (I dug out my senior year scrapbook and found these.) Of course, back then,... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was a super important day. It was the birthday of My Person. She lives in a different state and with schedules and COVID and my ailment I won't get to celebrate with her together until next month - but I've been thinking about how incredibly blessed and lucky I am to have my bestie/sister... Continue Reading →
I don't know about y'all but my social media feeds - as well as my email inbox with all of its news updates - can be pretty unpleasant these days. The election news is so stressing, there is a massive COVID disinformation campaign that is just making me so freaking angry, and, in the meantime,... Continue Reading →
I just realized today, October 12th, is World Arthritis Day - and I decided that I should say something about it even though I hadn't planned to write anything else medical this week, but, goodness knows, RA changed many things in my life. I had to laugh too that today was a major rheumatologist appointment... Continue Reading →
The thing about chronic illness is that I truly never know what's coming - and I never know what will be the thing that will just lay me out. I've been MIA because of an ailment that started with a resistant sinus infection. While unpleasant, I've had chronic sinusitis literally my entire life and I... Continue Reading →
As most of my readers know, I am writing a book about death - the dying process, coping with it, grief, those types of things. As a part of that, I do plenty of reading and research - and I've been working on something that has been really fun and interesting. Well, fun and interesting to... Continue Reading →
This morning, one of my favorite Facebook pages, Unvirtuous Abbey, posted this: And it really got me thinking - because I have such an abiding love for old churches and beautiful stained glass. I stopped and took a look through some of my albums I haven't seen in awhile and found some beautiful memories. We... Continue Reading →
In the wake of the COVID-19 economic catastrophe, all cities and states are having to face difficult financial decisions - and it is expected that budget cuts will be seen in many areas. My home city, Birmingham, has announced that it is indefinitely furloughing 158 of its 211 library employees and only plans to reopen... Continue Reading →
Today I'm going to tell a part of my story that I've never written before - and I don't know why. It changed so much of my life - and I've needed to share it for so long - but I was never able to. Until now. I'm telling it today of all days because... Continue Reading →
My word, what a day. Many people will be writing about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the coming days - often with more information and insight than I have, I'm sure. . . but I cannot imagine talking about anything else right now. Since the breaking news appeared on my phone, I have been sitting,... Continue Reading →
