I Won’t Take No For An Answer My newest book, Southern Grit: Stories from My Grandparents, is a marriage of memoir and life lessons from two of the most influential people in my life – my Mamaw and Papaw. I wanted to mine treasures from their lives and...
Who was Helen Keller? If you are over the age of thirty, you probably learned about her in middle school history. The blind and deaf girl who, at the turn of the century, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, overcame impossible odds to learn not only to...
It is January. That means packed gyms, new diets, and New Year’s resolutions. You either jump on the resolution band wagon or you don’t. Generally there aren’t many fence sitters to the resolution game. I am a New Year’s resolution kind of a girl. I love a fresh...
Before we moved to Spain, I had never considered living outside the US. While I knew it was always within the realm of possibility as a military family, we were never actively pursuing it. Our move to Spain was unique because it would put us...
During our sixteen-year nomadic journey from one home to the next, we have lived in everything from a cookie-cutter three-bedroom two bath, to a 100-year-old apartment, to a sprawling Spanish villa. The highs and lows of each house have given us a clearer picture of...
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