Pruning Wars
When it comes to trimming the shrubs and trees around our home, Phil and I have vastly different ideas on when to say when. Phil takes pruning to the extreme. I can almost hear the foliage begin to whimper whenever the man picks up yard clippers. I would tell you that Phil is a more is more type of pruner. Phil thinks I am anti-pruning,
The Things You Can Think
The All Things Southern Baby Czars and I might not always agree on which book we want to read and how many times it should be read, in one sitting, but when it comes to story time itself, the grands and I are on the same page. Pun intended. Books rock! One of my favorites is a Doctor Seuss classic, “Oh, the Thinks You Can
Making Plan B Beautiful
It was Wednesday and my day to keep the grand girls. Miss Emerson had one thing on her mind. “Keggie, are we going to make Jell-O today? “Sure,” I said. Jell-O is our thing right now. We make it before lunch and the deal is that we get to share a small cup if the girls rest well. Mind you, two-year old Carlisle still takes
The One Thing We All Have
I greeted the older gentleman as I extended the gift from our church group. “Hello there! We brought you a little something for Christmas.” The resident scowled at me and ignored the offering in my hand. “I can’t sleep with all this singing,” he grumbled. I smiled and made another effort at conversation that was dismissed as quickly as the first. The only thing
Join me Monday Evening for another swinging hour of ATS LIVE
Hey friends! I'll be back on air tomorrow evening with another fun evening of ATS LIVE and I couldn't be more excited to introduce to y'all my special guest, Dr. Rita Hancock. Dr. Rita is a graduate of Cornell University and is a board-certified Physical Medicine specialist with subspecialty board certification in Pain Management. She has been in full-time practice for fifteen years. In addition, she serves as the
What I heard
And Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God? Believe also in me." And I hear: We can not wrap our minds around God and our faith suffers for it unless we learn to wrap our reaching hearts around Jesus, the hope of glory! Believing in God way up there doesn't comfort the troubled heart. Believing He sent his only begotten Son
“Muddy Holes and Swimming Pools”
One terribly hot summer day on Bull Run Road, when my sisters and I were three little tomboys with a lot of time on our hands, we decided to build ourselves a swimming pool behind my daddy's tractor shed. We must've dug most of the afternoon before Cyndie, my oldest sister and consequently the foreman, deemed the hole to be large enough. The three of
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
Happy Fourth of July from All Things Southern
Taken from an excerpt of her radio show, ATS LIVE, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson shares wise words from the father of our country we would be wise to heed today. George Washington speaks on public debt, religion, and divisive political parties.
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