Category: PONDERINGS

  • Well, I Come from Alabama

    Well, I Come from Alabama

    Several years ago, I let my subscription to Southern Living lapse. I thought superiorly, I just don’t read magazines anymore. I’ve been concerned about my own lapsing “Southern-ness” ever since. I feel like the decline began when I started eating lunch at noontime and dinner in the evening (except on Sundays, of course). I’ll declare, there are just too many things about me…

  • Life’s Not a Highway

    Life’s Not a Highway

    “Life,” someone much wiser than I once declared, “is about the journey, not the destination.” For vacation, though, the opposite is now true. Hurry up and get there! Enjoy it until the last second! Hurry home and back to real life! While I certainly love the destination, I have recently decided about myself that for…

  • The Road Often Traveled (or Time Well Spent)

    The Road Often Traveled (or Time Well Spent)

    The Conner Carpool August 3, 1999 – May 29, 2014   Dear Carpool, We have shared countless hours as we traveled a bazillion miles together along the same route from home to school to home (especially from fall 2005 to January 24, 2010, when the kids were at two different schools). Chuck has always enjoyed…