Mourning a Family Icon
Decades before we labeled parents "single mother" and "single father," when his beautiful wife, Hettie, died, Arthur Walker--or "Papa"--as we called him, was a single father to eight children. My mother was the next to youngest, and the...
Great Fiction Giveaway!: The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
A Random House publicist saw my initial review on the hardback debut of The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove and offered to give one of you readers a copy of the new paperback release! Read on for details! Bloggers and would-be authors (not always one in the same)...
“A New Day” for Metro Nashville Students with DisAbilities
Fourteen years ago, I began a lifestyle that I had intentionally set out to avoid. I suited up, so-to-speak, buckled in and merged into interstate traffic each morning. A preschooler with newly diagnosed autism rode in the back seat. Sometimes kicking and screaming....
“Midnight in Paris”: A Movie for Artists, Writers & Travelers
We're on a bit of a movie kick here at our house. Grace thinks life consists of walks in the park, swimming, milkshakes, trips to the "beach-ocean," Disney and movies. My daughter of few words turned to me in the car this week and dead-on looked at me...
“Stealing Mona Lisa”
He is a quiet man. At least that's how I've experienced him. And quietly he toiled away, his day job--a techie at Vanderbilt University. I met Richard Morton, whose pen name is Carson Morton, (Carson is his middle name,) through my friend, author Paul Dolman....
Faith. For. ALL!!
This. Is. SO important. Despite that some would consider me's a heathern, I tenaciously believe our sense of spirituality and need for many (including myself) to connect to something greater than ourselves is a fundamental human right. For too long, faith...
Clothes4Souls & Olive Juice Give-Away
Eckhart Tolle wrote about A New Earth. Christian fundamentalists talk about End Times. New Agers speculate about the Mayan Calendar....2012. Tsunamis. Floods. Record heat that's predicted to become the norm. World economies in crisis. An American government and...
