I hear it coming from a mile away.  Every weekday morning for the past few months, a vehicle sputters and coughs its way along the main...

“I don’t get your interest in old things and dead people.”  My friend rolled her eyes and playfully elbowed me.  “How boring!” I just...

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...