Years That Answer

I just returned from a long weekend in California's wine country (Napa and Sonoma). T and I went with my brother (Big D) and his wife, V...

It is a woodturner’s dream down here in Florida. Piles of downed tree trunks and limbs have been hauled to the front ...

We are trying to get ready for this monster hurricane. Irma will find her way to Central Florida on Sunday. We are trying to prepare both ph...

The last Grandma story (for now): Grandma was a fundamentalist Protestant and a Pentecostal charismatic who talked in tongues when the spi...

--This treasure is a letter from my Tennessee grandmother (1905-2000) to my daughter, written in February 1981, for the occasion of...

My paternal grandmother was born in 1905 on a farm in Pickett County, Tennessee. She came from a family with roots in Colonial Virg...

I will eventually write about Charlottesville.  I will eventually allude to the hatred that is no longer festering in the hearts of so many ...

We went for a walk at a nature preserve yesterday. This preserve has a raised, wood plank path to walk on, which I appreciate considering th...

I am NOT religious. However, I am curious about religions, and religiosity. I've been intrigued by the concept of "grace" sin...

I'm reasonably good about taking care of myself.  I exercise, eat well, and go to all the required doctors (and dentist) for all the ann...