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            Boy, elections sure do make me hungry. Famished, actually. For TRUTH.             This year’s season of “Election Smackdown” is thankfully over, but it may take us awhile to scrub off the mud. The whole thing made Maury Povich’s “who’s-yo-daddy” televised paternity-test craziness appear almost civilized in comparison.             So, now we have a bunch… Continue reading Elections Make Me Hungry for TRUTH

            That’s how a friend of mine described a recent meal at Cracker Barrel restaurant with her teen-aged granddaughter.             Priscilla’s daughter, who is Hannah’s mother, had just suffered a miscarriage and the family was grieving the loss. So “Fifi” invited her oldest granddaughter out for some breakfast and consolation.             Priscilla and Hannah took… Continue reading Grief to Grits to Grace

            Scottish poet Robert Burns got it right: “The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry.”             I don’t know what frustrations Burns was experiencing or observing when he wrote those lines in 1785. I am sure, though, that he wasn’t trying to get to Jamaica for his honeymoon, like my son… Continue reading Life’s Hassles: Problem or Providence?

            I’ve been thinking about roots and wings. Not roots you pay your hairdresser to cover up, or wings you slather with buffalo sauce, but roots and wings we need to anchor and launch us in life. The kind we need to give to the people we love.             I’m waxing philosophic these days because… Continue reading We All Need Roots and Wings

           We can push, prod, nudge and nag, but sometimes people just don’t fit in the tidy little niches we create for them. They are who they are, and not always who we want them to be.             I’m prideful and deluded enough to usually think that if everyone would just behave according to MY… Continue reading People Are Who They Are

Large doses of cuteness, cuddling and fun, without the intense stress of parenthood. Yes indeed, 18 months into it, I am thoroughly loving this whole grandma gig. If a rotten smell wafts up from the nether regions of her diaper, I can simply hand off little Edda Rose to one of her parents for a… Continue reading The Heart of a Grandparent

            When you reach a certain age, I think you earn the right to draw some conclusions about life and people. So, here are two conclusions I’ve drawn: 1. People don’t really hear what you’re saying unless they are ready to hear what you’re saying; and 2. Just because they look like they’re listening, it… Continue reading Is Anybody Listening?

               I think I’ve finally earned my criminology merit badge now. Maybe even an associate’s degree. And I did it all sitting there on my couch, watching T.V. shows that plumb the murky depths of the criminal mind. From “NCIS” to old “Perry Mason” reruns, crime shows seem to feed my obsessive compulsion to figure… Continue reading Everybody Has a Story

            Yard art is a curious thing. If your front yard is adorned with one of those wooden cutouts made to look like the hind end of a large woman bending over, please don’t take offense, but seriously, what were you thinking?             I mean, do you want passersby to think that is YOU out… Continue reading God Wants the Real Thing

       We humans are always tinkering, always trying to make things bigger, better, faster.             But if you ask me, some things just shouldn’t be messed with.             I discovered recently that the rules of church league softball have been hideously altered and all I can say is, “Man has gone too far.”             I am… Continue reading Thankfully, Some Things Never Change