Dog Brains
When I was growing up, my friends Chip Ivie and Jennie Sue Garrett made a haunted house in the Ivie’s garage on Halloween. They were only one year older than me but in upper elementary / junior high years that translated into “they were cool and I was a pudgy little peon.” During part of their haunted house they had […]
Chicken Scratch from a Bird Brain
I saw this picture on social media. After I hee-haw’d, I was taken back to a memory of my own kids honesty that hurt so bad. Good. Okay, both. Mary Catherine (now a sophomore in high school) was in 2nd grade. It was parents night (open house) at her private Christian school. Although we loved the school, […]
Please Don’t Squeeze the Charmin Mr. Perlman
My husband had been waiting months for this night. He grew up playing the violin. Upon moving from Louisiana to Nashville for college, Keller started calling his violin a fiddle and traded in his tux for blue jeans…but his love and appreciation for classical music never faded. This opportunity to see Itzhak Perlman with the Nashville […]
Stairway to Heaven
I fall a lot. When I say a lot, I don’t mean every week…or even bi-annually…but I’m a 47 year old woman with both legs the same length and have decent eyesight. You’d think I’d catch on by now. Over the weekend I decided to have some quiet time at the river we live by. […]
I’m Not a Dentist
When my oldest child was in Kindergarten she started getting wiggly teeth. She knew this meant easy money and had visions of new Polly Pockets dancing in her head. I happen to LOVE snaggletooth kids and was hoping for a “garage door”…all four front teeth gone at once. This is the jackpot of snaggletooth love. The […]
A Visit from the PoPo
One quiet morning a few weeks ago, I got a call from my sweet friend and ex-business partner, Ali. “Amy, my doorbell just rang…uh, this is crazy but…it was the police…and…they were looking for you.” “WHAT?!! HOLY SHMOLY!! Why?!” Ali said the officer didn’t say what he wanted but that they had her address and […]
#whats #your #hashtag?
If you follow me on social media then you know that I am kind of obsessed with hashtags. Because I’m “not right” as my friend Terry jokingly tells me, I use hashtags for humor. However, hashtags were developed to label Tweets into different categories. For example, you attend a wedding and post pictures on social […]
My favs
Oh Deer! “Hunting” for the lesson.
You might not know this about me, but I love deer. I think they are beautiful and are fascinating to watch. When we lived by Percy Warner Park (where there are a plethora of deer) my family would “bid” on the number they think we would see as we drove down Chickering Lane. We would […]