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What things give you energy? What is energy? Is it drive, movement, purpose, spirit, or a mechanical function? How is it measured, from where does it come… Energy is defined as such: “Energy is measured in joules, cannot be created or destroyed, but can be transferred or transformed from one form to another, which is the basis…
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Rambling on about Wishful Changing of the Season… As the calendar flips to September, an unmistakable longing for cooler weather starts to settle in my soul. Living in the deep south, the hope for relief from relentless humidity is almost as much a seasonal tradition as football games and sweet tea. I find myself yearning…
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How Jeannie C. Riley’s Iconic Album Became Our Childhood Soundtrack Music has a magical way of transporting us back in time, evoking memories and emotions like nothing else can. For me, no album does that more powerfully than Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley PTA.” To many, it’s a country classic from the late 1960s, but…
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Ramblings on Our Legal System, Government, and Reality What would I like to be more informed about? I am at the point where I liked the world better when I knew less, when people were afraid to speak from some of the places they do now. If there is anything I wish I could know…
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Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. I am an old Southern Woman, cooking and baking have been a part of my life since childhood. As a little girl, I sat on a stool in the kitchens of my mom, and my grandmother’s as they cooked and created the dishes and treats of…
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Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. Life happens… life is a journey that is filled with lessons you learn on your way through. Some come subtly, some are hard learned, some we fight against believing we can always make it up later. Some lessons are the product of our surroundings,…
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The World… The world is so very loud,its noise cloaked in a shroud.There is weariness I can’t shake,I feel it every day, even as I wake.The heaviness is filled with untruth,navigating the day I become a sleuth.Searching for truth is becoming a chore,and even what you find seems surreal, unsure.The chaos grows as violence and…
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Rambling on about Navigating the Journey Within; Life is Loud. In the ceaseless unfolding of days, with their shimmering promise and shadowed uncertainty, I have learned to trust an inner compass—my personal GPS. This is not a device that chirps directions from a screen, nor a map that charts the roads etched upon the earth.…
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Rambling on about Food and Its place in Life…. Food, in its most essential form, is sustenance, it is a requirement for the continuation of life. It is the daily bread that fortifies our bodies, the grains and fruits and proteins that build and repair us, the water that quenches our thirst. Yet, to speak…
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How often do you walk or run? Walking, is something that I have leaned into for the last 7 years. For me, it was an ability that was almost lost 34 years ago. I had a bad fall, was paralyzed from my waist down, the doctors said I’d never walk again, but God had another…
