Once, when I was around 11 or 12 years old, my mother was going to the grocery store. I really, really didn’t want to go so I begged my mom to let me stay at home alone. Now this wasn’t something that they allowed often, but my parents were just starting to let me stay [...]
When I was fairly young, we had a lava lamp in our living room. It was a really funky-looking lava lamp with a pale green light and white lava in it. Remember, this was the early 1970′s and a lava lamp went well with our early 70′s decor. Anyway, I was convinced that the lava [...]
Everyone who knows me well knows that I love music. My life is lived to a soundtrack and I can pretty much tell you what was going on in my life and what I was feeling when I hear a song from way-back-when. My friend Kathryn and I used to break out into song at [...]
Whenever I take one of those quizzes that seem to get passed around via email or Facebook, there always seems to be a question asking what your favorite smell is. Invariably, I always have the same answer – Fresh Cut Grass. A lot of people seem perplexed by this answer and want to know the [...]
Between my Junior and Senior years of high school, I finally convinced my parents to let me move back to Alabama from California (for the whole story, see Falling in Love (or God’s Plan for my Life) part III). Once the decision was made I didn’t have a whole lot of time (maybe a month) [...]
I was recently remembering how it felt to fall in love. I know what you are thinking right now….”oh no, not a mushy, I-Love-My-Husband post!” And it isn’t really… It is actually the story of how God worked in two unbeliever’s lives to bring them together and bring them to the point we are at [...]
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