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A golden glimmer of hope

Like a disco ball at the skating rink, I know it’s tacky, but it’s still just so pretty, I can’t stop looking. There’s a speck of glitter embedded in my living room rug, left over from Christmas, and...

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(tacky??) Let’s plan on Halloween

Driving down Government Street in Mobile on the second week of August I liked to have popped my pearls. There, in front of an old historic home was a lawn full of Halloween decorations. Not just pretty...

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Here come the city folks

Where do we find peace? Get ready Southerners, here come our new neighbors. The fruit basket-turnover of 2020 has begun. Large cities gripped by COVID-19 along with violence and rioting are seeing...

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Hurricanes need Southern names

The World Meteorological Association has announced a list of names for this year’s storms. When we ran out of names last year, they supplemented with Greek letters like Eta and Iota. This year,...

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She always loved flowers

In the photo on my desk, my son Joe was 9 years old, wearing a baseball cap twisted backwards and baggy old hand-me-down jeans. Flip flops finished his scruffy-kid look. In his hands, he clutched a...

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102 Years of gratefulness

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll recognize my friend Jule Moon. We recently celebrated her 102nd birthday, and this is the special story I wrote for AL.com. The photos here are of her...

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How to go ’round the roundabout

If you’ve traveled in Europe or watched old movies with Audrey Hepburn perched on the back of a Vespa zipping past ruins, you’re sure to have noticed the traffic circles. These busy hubs have been a...

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The Faith of Bobby Bowden

This was a feature story I wrote that appeared in the Sunday, August 15, 2021 edition of the Mobile Press-Register, Birmingham News and The Huntsville Times. It wasn’t included in their on-line site,...

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Diana’s 40 year old cake

A slice of 40-year-old cake from Princess Diana’s wedding to Prince Charles recently sold at auction for $2,600, which is amazing, considering it was fruitcake. I’m completely shocked because I...

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1964 Sears Catalog

My mother gave me the coolest thing ever —  the 1964 Spring and Summer edition of the Sears Catalog. No one comes to my house and sees it without gasping and wanting to flip through the pages to see...

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