Backwards Beatitudes
I know. I've been MIA on the blog lately. I've found it challenging to keep all of the ATS balls in the air during Mama's back surgery and recovery. The to-do list got whittled down to the must-do and the blog didn't make the cut. Mama's doing well, improving a little more every day. She's a good patient. She doesn't want to "bother anyone", this from a woman who has
2nd Pew Left Hand Side, VBS & Deep and Wide
I'm sitting beside Mama's hospital bed watching her sleep and thinking about the heritage of love and self-sacrifice she's given this family. Maybe it's the nostalgia of the moment, but I keep thinking about some words I wrote this week about family. It has me wanting to share them with any of you who may not follow Southern Belleview. (FYI, Southern Belleview is a site where I join four
Duck Dynasty’s Kori Robertson to Visit ATS LIVE Monday the 23rd
Attention Duck Dynasty fans! Don't miss ATS LIVE this coming Monday, July 23rd. Kori Robertson will be joining me in the studio of TALK540 from 5:00 to 6:00 PM CST. The show airs locally and streams live here. (For any new listeners planning to tune in, the top of the hour is a news break. The show actually kicks off at 5:06.) Fans of the hugely popular
MaryBeth Whalen visits ATS LIVE today with “The Guest Book”
Hey y'all! It's Monday and I'm running around like a chicken with her head cut off trying to lay radio tracks here and prepare for this evening's talk show in Monroe. That's ATS LIVE in the event you haven't heard -- and if you haven't heard, today would be a perfect time to join us! We'll be on the porch swing just a'swanging at 5:06
Reversing the Travesty, Step One (new post)
I'm sitting on the back porch thinking over the morning's events and contemplating the beautiful, mysterious ways of God. Care to join me for a story? Little more than a week ago, I posted a blog thought called Travesty. In it, I expressed a heartfelt desire to begin correcting what I saw as a great wrong. It might help if you read that post before you
Authors & Aspiring Writers need to see this Mind Mapping Memo from the Belle of All Things Southern
Happy Friday, folks! I love to bring y'all things that I find helpful and right now, I'm intrigued with the concept of Mind Mapping. Granted, I'm coming to the table late, way late I'm sure, but I'm here! Special thanks to Lucille Zimmerman at WordServe Watercooler for the post that brought it to my attention. Note: You don't have to be a writer to use this, I see great
What a Travesty
Travesty. I probably haven't used that word a handful of times in my whole life but it sprang to my mind yesterday during my early morning devotions
Do Not Read Your Book Reviews!
Dear *Cat, I did it again. I didn't mean to, I promise. I had no intention of reading reviews last Saturday! It's just that I got an email invite to be someone's friend on this certain book site and when I clicked "sure thing", or something like that, I was taken to the site itself, which is where I happened to see my book in a little sidebar along
Is that a Hole in my Head?
I have scant time for this, but since my author friend Nicole Seitz thought I should share this story, here we go. Note: there'll be even more rambling than usual because there'll be zero to none editing. We good? Cool. Once upon a time, (which was actually just last week), I had a hole in my head. I do not mean an actual hole. That's just the phrase that kept coming
Our Town Pauses to Remember
I just returned from our town's Memorial Day service on the banks of beautiful Lake Providence. The service never fails to leaves me sober-spirited. As well it should. I listened closely as Mr. Al Rawls, a Marine Corps Captain who served in Vietnam and the Civics teacher from our local high school, spoke eloquently of his fallen comrades in general and emotionally of one of his buddies in particular, a friend whose life was
