This beautiful exchange

I don’t know why, but lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about those incredibly awkward moments in my past. Not the awkward situational moments, those moments or times in my history when I was awkward as a person. Like the years I woke up as a kid with matted, strangely wavy hair that never looked [...]

As they were for most people not in the “cool crowd”, my years in junior high were difficult ones. I often felt like I was caught in the middle of the “crowds” and for some reason, I became the target of ridicule from both sides. However, I always thought that aside from not having high [...]

Do you remember that song? It was made popular a few years ago by country singer, Leanne Womack. I believe it was her break-through song. When it first came out, it seemed that everyone around me was buying her cd or the single and everywhere I turned it was being played.
Back in those days, I [...]

Well, I have made it to the age where I have to watch what I eat. It has happened. I have arrived. I read an article the other day that says that the average adult gains one pound each year. I would say that I’m right on track.
Now, I don’t want to weigh what [...]

Finding friends in Charlotte has been a very slow process. Much of it has to do with the fact that neither of us work out of the home so our only regular contact with people is at church on Sundays. We have gone out to eat a couple of times with a couple from church. [...]

When we lack certain pieces of information, we tend to connect the dots in the most pathological way.
I heard this quote yesterday and found it to be very interesting and very fitting for my life at times. The preacher-man couldn’t remember exactly where he read the quote, but knew that it came from some psychology [...]

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve begun to realize that I will always be my mother’s child. I find myself going through my day, hearing my mother’s voice in my head. “Don’t go outside with wet hair.” “Make your bed.” “Wear clean underwear in case you get into an accident.” I think that last [...]

We don’t have two-legged children yet, but I think I can safely say that we do have one very hairy, slobbery child named Graham. I mean, if you think about it, there are a lot of similarities between a dog and a child.
1. We feed him.
2. We potty train him (Gosh, there’s that word again!).
3. [...]

From the fifth grade through eighth grade, I went roller skating almost every weekend. My then best friend, Leah, and I would put on our tight blue jeans, slouch socks and white hoop earrings the size of golf balls and hit the rink. Of course, neither of us could drive so one of our moms [...]

So, I’m sure we all have those moments in our lives that we wish we never lived through the first time. Let alone, be reminded of it again and again as the months, or years, go by.
Well, now that the weather is turning warmer and we are beginning to use the air conditioning in our [...]