Straight Running Crazy News, BATTLE 2018 , and leaving a legacy
Hey y’all! A new podcast is up! You can find the link to listen at the bottom of this blog post. And/or you can subscribe for free on iTunes. I know, however, that some of y'all are having trouble following the transition, so I've tried to transcribe most of it for you here
It’s a New Season at All Things Southern
Hey y'all! I'm happy to report the Beloved Farmer and I survived the 2nd Annual Pops and Keggie Kamp! That would be the one held for our grands, The Fabulous Five, and it is not for the feint of heart or body. The kids and I had a list of activities we wanted to get around to and we were checking 'em off like crazy. Kamp
A Life in Christ verses a Christian Experience
I was in New York recently on a publicity tour for my new release, Devotions for the Hungry Heart. It was incredibly interesting, and not just because I couldn't say the words New York without hearing the voice of that salsa commercial from years back saying, “New York City?!!!” Okay, there’s that, but my BFF and partner in pranks, Rhonda Perry, traveled with me and that
That moment in each of our lives
A boy ran by a man standing on the curb. Five minutes later the boy rushed by again, and again, and again. Finally, the man stopped him and asked, “Why are you running in circles, son?” Very indignant, the boy shouted, “I’m not! I’m running away from home!” “Oh,” said the man, “But you’ve gone around the same block at least five times.” “I know!” shouted the
Oh, Grow Up!
I was minding my own business and typing away on my laptop when I noticed something out of my peripheral vision. Something large was moving across my back yard. SURPRISE, SURPRISE, I turned around to discover a red-headed cow loitering on my property. It was bizarre, the red-head and her clown suit. If you know my BFF, you’re probably ahead of me. But yes, it was
Cease Striving (Or Churning) and Know That He is God
Dear countrymen, lend me your ears. That No Churn Ice Cream recipe all over the Internet is really good, slap your mama if you dared good. And easy! One blender, three ingredients. Trust me, it's way better than dragging out the electric ice cream maker, rounding up the parts, and running to the store for rock salt because you never seem to have any on
This is No Time to Retire
Something unprecedented happened recently at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York, and it had nothing to do with the record setting history everyone expected. Isn't that life? It's predictably unpredictable. Everyone and their mama had Serena Williams not only competing in the finals, but winning it, to complete a calendar Grand Slam and become the first man or woman to accomplish that feat since
Hungry is a Mighty Fine Sauce!
Okay, I can't stand it. I've got to stop and tell y'all more about the project I'm working on called Hungry is a Mighty Fine Sauce. It's a cookbook/memoir, scheduled for an October 2016 release by Barbour Publishing and I'm super excited about it for a host of reasons. For starters, long-time readers have been asking me to compile a cookbook for more than a decade
Oh, How He Loves Us. Oh!
In my first book, "Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road", I wrote about my summer love affair with the bookmobile from the East Carroll Parish Library. I couldn't find an image of that old vehicle but it looked a whole lot like this. For a little booklover at the end of a dirt road, miles from a public library, that bus of books lumbering down our
When It Seems Too Much To Ask
What would prayer do? Those words dropped in my heart around midnight several weeks ago with such power that it woke me from a deep sleep. I slept lightly the rest of the night, drifting in and out of full consciousness, but always with that phrase presenting itself front and center in my thoughts. What would prayer do? I knew it was a riff of the line,