Trial + Error = Growth

When our girls were younger and Halloween rolled around each year, we would do the things a lot of folks do, finding costume ideas and preparing for trick or treating, usually Halloween Strolls planned in one of the many small towns in our Western North Carolina area....

A Stray Cat Strut

When I was a teenager, a rockabilly group, The Stray Cats, started growing in popularity and a few of their songs made it on my list of favorites at the time, which was sometime in the early 1980s. Those songs included Rock This Town, The Stray Cat Strut, and (She’s)...

Love for the Bad Days

Let’s face it. Life is hard and we all have bad days. Days where nothing seems to go the way we planned or the way we want. Days where we feel more emotional, even weepy or maybe angry, than other days. Days where we’d like to treat ourselves to the day in bed or on...

Can She Do It?

When I first announced this project to my family, first to my husband, for whom I had done a similar project right after we had our first baby girl, and then to my teenagers, it was only my 17 year old who wondered aloud whether it was possible for me to find 365...

The Write Time

When I graduated from high school, I remember all of the different conversations that circulated around us as seniors who were in the midst of one of our first big transitions—where were people headed after graduation. By that time, most of us had heard from the...