You know how some things just make you happy? You can’t really explain it, but they do. Like: the smell of chlorine the school supply aisle homemade bread clean sheets The Grove used book stores gospel choirs Wynken, Blynken, and Nod black and white pictures hearing kids sing as the sun goes down at camp […]

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  There is a land of dreams far away Where little girls hide and wander and play There are jungles and deserts and castles and kings and rivers and oceans and make believe things. Like fairies and dragons and witches and beasts and pageants and balls and grand royal feasts. You’ll dance and twirl on […]

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My friend, Kathryn, is obsessed with celebrities and would have zero shame snapping a picture of Brangelina in the French Quarter.  Or taking pictures of their house or the building where Maddox goes to school, for that matter.  She’d also be shameless about sitting on the front row of an NSync concert as a college student and fighting a […]

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I grew up in a little church on a county road in Mississippi. I’d walk over the hill from my aunt’s house with a cold biscuit in my hand and the sound of the organ drifting through the pines. I can still hear Mrs. Dean’s voice ringing rich and sweet through the sanctuary as she […]

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Dear Emily, Yes, I know Pontotoc is small and you feel trapped sometimes, but don’t be in a hurry.  There’s a great big world out there and you’re going to see a lot of it, I promise.  For now, take a deep breath and listen to me! Don’t drive so fast down Longview Road, and […]

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The school where I work is only about four miles from the heart of the city, but it takes thirty minutes to get to Granadino by bus.  We wind down the mountain, stop for construction, and the occassional mudslide and make it to the campus just the same.  My favorite part of the drive is the last […]

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My brother represents all things manly.  He’s always got boots in the back of his truck.  He hunts and fishes and works hard to keep up his place.  “Land oughta look good,” he says.  He’s athletic and smart and any one that has the nerve to cross him is surely in for a lashing.  And […]

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Chu–que? Exactly. That’d be chunchurria con arepa, a Colombian favorite. Here are some pictures for you. Number one: Me trying it because I stinking love the family that invited me for the weekend. Number two: My reaction to trying it. It’s was SO not biscuits and gravy. And just for fun, a picture of the […]

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I love the movies.  The popcorn.  Big Diet Cokes with lots of ice.  (oh, how I loved thee, Diet Coke!) The quiet hush as the lights go down.  I stinking LOVE the movies.  When Lyle and I lived in Australia, we’d meet in Sydney on Saturdays and watch movies all day long.  It made it […]

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What’s that noise? Yeah, the one that sounds like a fog horn. Oh, don’t worry. That’s just me blowing my nose. FOR THE 552nd TIME TODAY.

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