He’s seventeen.  I’ve known about him for quite some time.  I sit on an HOA board in our neighborhood and have been painfully aware of the trouble he’s gotten himself into over the years.  It’s been no secret to a select few of us that this boy has not had an easy life.  A perfect...

I’m a quote person. I relish in them.  Biblical ones. Inspirational ones. Funny ones. Thought provoking ones. Quotes that make me pause, contemplate, cry, laugh, think…I have journals and journals of them. As a freelance writer, I work them into my pieces, I use them on handmade...

Part 1: Trees In my front yard today is an inconvenient tree – a magnolia tree.  I am pretty sure aliens invented this tree and one day all the magnolias will rise up and enslave the earth in year-round maintenance.  If you know about magnolia trees, you know that they flower and that is...