Back in June, I was fortunate enough to be chosen as an Ambassador Mom for Kotex. Kotex asked its Ambassador Moms to write posts geared toward moms of tweens and teens, and put those posts up periodically, as it were. Ahem. They asked me to schedule these posts, once a month. Once a month. It’s the …
Buttermilk Biscuits with Chives and Black Pepper require no more skill to make than regular homemade biscuits. If you’ve never made biscuits before, homemade biscuits, made from scratch, are easy to do. Yet, they take a somewhat humble bowl of soup, and turn it into a meal that the whole family is thrilled about! A …
Lentil Soup with Kielbasa is the perfect soup to warm up your heart, soul, and tummy on a chilly fall or winter evening. And it’s easy, too! Why I Thought I Could Never Serve Lentil Soup: The reason has been 25 years in the making. I’m at a bit of a disadvantage, since some of …
On Sunday morning, I go to church. The songs of worship are encouraging, and good for my soul, and most of the congregation enters into the lovely singing. But last Saturday? Saturday I entered a building that didn’t look one bit like a traditional church building. Inside of it, I had the privilege of getting …
Quick, Easy Grilled Fish Tacos with Spicy Slaw is a delicious, healthy weeknight meal, that you can throw together in 30 minutes. Free Fish! Sometimes, life brings you a very nice windfall. In our case, it was a very nice fishfall. No, that’s not a real word. It’s an old saying that I just made …
Once upon a time, when I was in my 20’s, I was a school teacher. I taught school at a very hoity-toity private school, where the parents paid big bucks to receive more personalized attention for their well-heeled students. It was on me to provide that attention and educate those offspring, and I did my …
My Salad with Navy Beans, Goat Cheese, Grape Tomatoes and Warm Bacon Vinaigrette is a light summer dinner recipe. It’s more of a meal than a salad. After all, in the dog days of summer, isn’t it wonderful to have a nice, cool salad for dinner sometimes? This one’s so good, you’l want to enjoy …
Extravagantly Excellent Eggplant Parmigiana I can hear you now: Eggplant Parmigiana? Eggplant??? I HATE eggplant! And honestly, at one point in my life, I would have said exactly the same thing. I grew up hating eggplant. I was raised, in fact, on the hatred of eggplant. Nasty, bitter, detestable stuff, eggplant. I was disgusted by …
As much as my Mother adored me, (and she did), it was never easy for me to talk with her about things that were deeply personal to me. That’s on me. For some reason, when it came to topics concerning my body, I held her at arm’s length, so to speak. Which is why, I’m …
Free shoes? You decide. Have you ever heard the old saying that “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”? I have found this to be a true statement, in life, in general. In fact, I have found it to even be true in cyberspace. To all my bright-eyed, fresh faced young blogging friends who …
i A twenty-fifth wedding anniversary is no small thing. And since it will only come around once in my life, and since a few of you asked to see the pictures we took on the evening of the event, I thought I’d share a few of those with you, as well as a few …
With apologies to Charles Dickens for downright thievery, and ultimately, the mutilation of his beautiful prose, I can sum up my adventure of a road trip in July, thusly: It was the best of times,it was the worst of times,but it didn’t stop just then.Then, it was the best of times,and the worst of times,and …
World’s Most Beautiful Wedding Song??? Seriously, Sooze? Perhaps you exaggerate? Just a touch? Well…since I was the bride, and my husband, the groom, was the man who WROTE the song for me? Absolutely not. I do NOT overstate my case. This IS the World’s Most Beautiful Wedding song. And it was sung 25 years ago, …
From the moment we eased our car down the driveway of the house that sat on the shore of Old Hickory Lake, and saw eleven white Labrador puppies lined up in a row, each standing on two legs with their paws resting on top of a short chicken wire fence, wagging their little tails at …
Deakie pinned his ears back when he was the most happy, and the most proud.Good boy, Deak. It is with a broken heart that I regretfully announce that Deacon D. Dawg left this life on Friday morning, while I was out of town, visiting with friends in Atlanta, and while the kids were out of …