Full disclosure before you read more: this is a curmudgeon post, not my usual sunshine and rainbows. It’s just how I feel. I support everyone’s choices (okay, maybe not the one with the live alligator, but I’m getting ahead of myself…) 9 Reasons Gender Reveals Make Me Uneasy Many of them involve contraptions that emit […]
Five Minute Friday: LOYAL
Today’s Prompt: LOYAL Because of the current political climate, I had plenty of opportunities today to pull a quote about loyalty related to our president’s expectations. Things along the lines of “everyone knows loyalty is what matters most to him.” But. I. won’t. do. that. Instead, what is on my mind is something I said […]
The Great Divide(r)
Are you on Twitter? If so, put “grocery divider” in the search bar and take a scroll through the results. Go ahead. I’ll wait. (But if you want to save keystrokes, click here.) The thread appears to have begun here: It may have been a joke, but the 1,700 comments and 48,000 retweets, not to […]
Five Minute Friday: LOVED
Today’s Prompt: LOVED I’ll be honest, readers. I am feeling disconnected from this prompt. As any of us (all of us) writers know, however, writing is among the best of the methods of finding connection again. It would be easier to write about things I love, but things I loved or times I personally felt loved seem elusive […]
If God’s Keeping Score, I’ve Fallen Way Behind
What did you do the summer after you graduated from high school? Take a vacation? Go to summer school? Work a summer job? I spent the summer hours away from home, serving as a Southern Baptist Convention summer missionary. I was 17 and felt called to save the world*. Here are some things (from the […]
Five Minute Friday: WOMAN
Today’s Prompt: WOMAN There is a woman I don’t know out there who is getting her classroom ready for the 3rd graders she will start teaching Monday. Because the school system doesn’t give teachers their classroom funding (such as it is) until school starts … and because it is her first year teaching, a mutual […]