Half Full or Half Empty?
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We moms and dads do learn a few things along the way, thank goodness. Today’s post features a recent email exchange between two fathers… Jack: Where is your daughter in school? Bill: She’s still a junior in high school but…
“Brad Paisley, you can almost Start Me Up, but we are here for the Rolling Stones!” – Kobie Pretorius, Facebook, from LP Field, 6/17/2015. And from George Cassidy, author and rocker (reposted from December 2014): A Prince Among Stones by Prince…
I once had the chance to hear Paige Bainbridge sing with Holly Williams (daughter of Hank Williams Jr.) at Blackberry Farm. Outdoors at Yallerhammer, under the stars, Holly asked for a bit of help from the audience. I volunteered my…
I might not have made it past page 50 if this weren’t “the new Judy Blume,” but I felt an emotional attachment to the author and to finishing it. By the end, I was so glad I did. Judy Blume still has…
I might as well come clean on this. I admire and even love some people who read substantial and thoughtful works of nonfiction, but I’m just not feeling it right now. I get enough nonfiction in the newspaper and The…
Farrell Mason glows, and it’s not just her radiant skin and long blonde hair. It’s not just her megawatt smile or physical grace. Farrell has a beautiful energy I can only attribute to her spiritual health and depth. She has…
Joelle Phillips has been thinking of those summer days long ago in Auburn, Alabama – days too hot to play outside – when she and her sister would sit in the den, “slurping popsicles while my mother read stories to…
Sorry for gushing. I’m having a hard time containing my enthusiasm for this novel! It’s early in the summer, and I haven’t been anywhere close to the shore. But I’ve been on a quest to find the ultimate new beach…
Hannah Lavey can do Southern demure if she needs to: let’s credit that to growing up in an antebellum home in Demopolis, Alabama. But demure isn’t her natural habitat! This girlfriend has sexy flair. She’ll mix it up in a…