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Feather Your Nest
Along with a good segment of America, I've started to pay attention to Waco, Texas because that's where Chip and Joanna Gaines host their HGTV show Fixer Upper. Not only are the Gaines' (as Chip might say) sweeter than candied yams dipped in honey with them big ole...
Stuck
In a paralyzing lapse of judgment, a couple of years ago I signed up for one of those gimmicky exercise opportunities, a 5K scheduled for a pleasant spring morning. The Foam Fest, it was called, to be held on beautiful Nashville countryside property. The...
Impostor
"All the world's a stage," Shakespeare said in As You Like It, "and all the men and women merely players." Maybe this explains why many of us feel like impostors. We may master the lingo, wear the uniform, even get the degree, but there's always this feeling of...
Next
It's the second day of January. The carpet is still full of fallen pine needles, a straggler Christmas card just arrived in the mail, and the Christmas clearance section at Target is best described as "there appears to have been a struggle." Two aisles over,...
Birds of a Feather
My father brought me a cake of suet for Thanksgiving. He'd made it himself, a simple concoction of peanut butter, cornmeal, shortening, and flour. It hangs inside a square wire cage on a pole outside my kitchen window where I watch the birds feast as I wash the...
Saying Grace
I am no gymnast; however, being a product of a dyed-in-the-wool Southern girl and a staunch and proper northerner sometimes stretches me into doing the splits across the Mason-Dixon Line. It's a scant 3 weeks til Thanksgiving, which reminds me of the strange and...