I was in 5th grade when I joined the Girl Scouts.  At one of the first meetings of North Alabama's newly formed Troop 396, we learned a...

A little over a decade ago, I made the decision to ditch cable TV and get an antenna. Since I live in a region prone to hurricanes and...

I will never forget May 5, 1979.  That was the day I was kidnapped. Just before dawn, someone pounced on my bed and threw a blanket over...

I froze, paralyzed by the sound of pens scribbling furiously across paper.  It wasn't just any paper that was getting inked, it was the...

Recently, I read a blog by Ann Voskamp.  Her son and daughter-in-law had spent years renovating a house built in the late 1800s, only to...

I've been going through old family slides. Thousands of them. Slides that span four decades. My dad was a hobby photographer and since,...

I came across the photo above last week while I was going through old family slides. It was taken on a cold, early morning visit to the...