Category Archives: Reflections

my recipe for a Happy Birthday!

Posted on April 21, 2020 by

They say you’re only 74 once so make the most of it. Pretty brought our granddaughter to visit for my birthday today! Ella loves her Nanas  Baby Ella brought her mother Pretty Too (holding cake) and her aunt twin sister … Continue reading →

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the anchor holds

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

“The anchor holds, though the ship is battered. The anchor holds, though the sails are torn. I have fallen on my knees as I faced the raging seas. The anchor holds in spite of the storm.” Lawrence Chewning wrote The … Continue reading →

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forty days milestone

Posted on April 17, 2020 by

When Pretty, the gay boys basketball buddies and I were making the trip from Greenville home to Columbia after watching our Gamecock women’s basketball team win the SEC tournament on Sunday, March 8th. we all were happy, thrilled, excited, chatty, … Continue reading →

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learning new tricks from old dogs

Posted on April 16, 2020 by

I first published this post in August, 2015 but I still love it. My dogs have always been my best teachers about what truly matters. I learned that from my daddy. From the time I was five or six years … Continue reading →

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your so-called social security

Posted on April 15, 2020 by

When I looked at our bank account last night for the umpteenth time before going to bed, I was ecstatic to see the Covid-19 recovery money had been deposited by the guvmint. Ecstatic for us – and for the guvmint … Continue reading →

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i is flawed, you is flawed, we is all flawed

Posted on April 14, 2020 by

When someone asks me what I write, I see a slight look of disappointment when I say nonfiction. Fiction writers must have all the fun, right? Well, I have a logical explanation for my shortcomings: I is flawed, you is … Continue reading →

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between hell and hackeydam

Posted on April 13, 2020 by

As if the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t enough, apparently the weather has also turned against us. I hear the wind howling in the trees tonight outside my window – with the possibility of tornadoes on the way according to the weather … Continue reading →

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hallelujah! revive us again

Posted on April 12, 2020 by

Aha. I see those hands, as the Southern Baptist revival preachers used to say from the pulpit during the altar call or “invitation” as we called it back then when we sat on the small wooden pews with the large … Continue reading →

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sally and chance – an unusual love story

Posted on April 11, 2020 by

This is an excerpt from a post first published here in September, 2011 and later included in the 2013 Texas Folklore Society Anthology titled Cowboys, Cops, Killers and Ghosts. A little longer than my usual posts, but I hope you’ll … Continue reading →

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thank God for unanswered prayer

Posted on April 10, 2020 by

If I were straight and young, I would be a Garth Brooks groupie. Seriously. Alas, I am neither so I will be content with listening to him via Alexa along with his other gazillion fans. One of my favorite country … Continue reading →

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