Who is this man and why did I volunteer to be on his team site unseen? “This man” is Terry Hitchcock. In 1996, he ran 75 marathons in 75 days. He did this to raise awareness of the challenges faced by single parents and to honor his wife’s memory. (His wife, Sue, had just passed […]
Has Anyone Seen Mom? (A Mama Kat Writing Prompt)
That Kat, she really knows how to bring couples together. Take, for instance, prompt #3 of this week’s five choices: Something you do that drives your significant other crazy. When I sent my husband an email to tell him that I needed help with my blog, I figured that the “crazy-making” thing would end up […]
Wordless Wednesday (The New America Edition)
Welcome to the USA, Canadian Friends! (Brought to us from those fine geographical minds at Roaches B Gone.)
Marching Blindly Through Molasses
When I was driving to Carrabelle last weekend to participate in the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum Reunion, I was listening to “The Professor and the Madman,” a book written by Simon Winchester about the development of the Oxford English Dictionary. At one point the book was discussing the laughingly erratic progress of the project and […]
Virtually Inspired (A Mama Kat’s Writing Workshop Prompt)
This week, Mama Kat gives us an opportunity to share a photo of something that inspires us. I am celebrating my 200th blog post (!) and hope to mark the occasion by being a catalyst for good. First of all, meet my inspiration: Brenya Elizabeth Sullivan Brenya’s adorable face smiles out at me from Doug Welch’s Miles […]
Wordless Wednesday (Words of the New Orleans Edition)
This past Saturday, I was attending the 16th Annual Camp Gordon Johnston Reunion. As part of the festivities, the New Orleans LCU was supposed to make a mock amphibious landing on Carrabelle Beach to simulate the WWII training activities that occurred there in the early ’40’s. Unfortunately, the beach was too shallow for the New Orleans […]