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A Parenting Psalm: Wisdom Prayer for My Children
Posted on April 24, 2019 5 Comments
I remember as a young girl my Daddy pointing out the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom comes with age, he said. Well, he finished, it ought to. It occurs to me—I am trying not to worry about it, really—that because of life’s circumstances, there are many “words of wisdom” I have not taught my […]
Lessons from My Face
Posted on March 2, 2018 Leave a Comment
Prompt from Mindfulness: A Journal (Price, 2016) Make a list of ten everyday activities that you find relaxing or soothing–even those as small as calling a friend or making a cup of your favorite tea. Try it! Do one of the activities on your list and write about your experience. The List, in no particular […]
Finding Free: The Atlanta Freedom Bands and Coming Full Circle
Posted on November 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
When I was in fifth grade at Littleville Elementary School, something magical happened. One day, our teacher announced that the band teacher from the nearby high school would be coming to Littleville to talk to kids and their parents about joining the band. It was 1973, and resources for extra-curricular activities–heck, resources for curricular activities–were […]
Hissing Ball of Fury: Losing Diana
Posted on September 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
The cat hated everybody. Everybody, that is, except me. And Sarah, of course–but she had owned Sarah for seventeen years, so that was to be expected. I only knew her for five months, and I didn’t really expect her to warm up to me. More than that, I never expected to warm up to her. […]
Music and Me, Part 1
Posted on January 18, 2014 Leave a Comment
The blessing and curse of being an academic is that whenever I come across any really interesting “thing”–whether it is an experience, a news story, situation, work of art, or take on the human condition–my first thought is, “Wow, that would make a great paper!” I wonder if my other egghead friends do that. It isn’t […]
Save the Worms
Posted on January 23, 2012 Leave a Comment
Coastal areas with their sea turtle preserves have nothing on red clay states like Georgia and Alabama. Yesterday morning I was walking Duncan. The sky was just a little lighter than the gray of the asphalt paving of my apartment complex. It was warm for a January morning, and the rain had just stopped. As […]
