Top Ten Moments of 2008

It’s New Year’s Eve! I figured this would be a good time to highlight my personal top ten moments of 2008. Here they are:
10. Meeting James Blunt in the Atlanta airport on the way to London. No, I’m not a huge James Blunt fan, but it was just a cool moment.
9. JJ and Alanna’s Charleston [...]

The Cure for the Common Christmas: Helping Others

For the third Christmas in a row some friends and I did a little shopping and fulfilled a few wishes for the residents of Reedy Place. It’s an innovative 15-unit apartment building near downtown Greenville. Its residents are former drug addicts and alcoholics. Many have mental disabilities. All have spent years of their lives living [...]

Our Night as Elves

Last night my husband and I grabbed our furry Santa (Bruno in his Christmas sweater), loaded up our goodies (homemade muffin mix) and set out to spread some Christmas cheer. Here are some pictures from our fun night.

Maybe we just started a new Christmas tradition?

The Incomplete Bucket List

Before Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman made that movie and before anyone even knew what a Bucket List was, I created mine. I was 14-years-old. The world was so big, but my little piece of it seemed so small. I wanted to trade perfectly manicured rows of corn for dusty Mexican highways and the open [...]

Dear Grandma, Sorry for the Frogs

I didn’t know my grandma sold Christmas trees from the back of her Minnesota diner until I read it in her obituary. I suppose there was a lot I didn’t know about Dorothy May McCorkell. I knew she was a pack rat. I knew she was a chain smoker. I knew she felt young in [...]