Belk is a very Southern department store. In Mississippi , I would equate it to McRae's. You go there to register for your china, cryst...

My best friend has started a blog. It looks sharp, sounds intelligent, and has little details like a blog roll and such. I am mightily impre...

Lately, I find myself angry and often I don't know why. Friends tell me not to worry about it, that I have a right to be angry. I love t...

I guess identity is who we see ourselves as. It seems that I define my own identity in my career. If asked the question, "Who are you?...

From as far back as I can remember, my mother tried to teach me that it didn't matter what you looked like or what you wore. As noble as...

On Friday, I will resign. For 6 years, I have been the Executive Director of a non-profit music school whose mission is to provide music les...

My mother's mother was called Honey. She moved to Jackson around the time I was born so that my mother could take care of her. From the...

In my first marriage, there were no children. I knew this was part of the deal going into to the union. He was sterile. Now I know that it i...

People have been telling me and Guy that we have been in the "honeymoon stage" since the day we started dating. There are those wh...

Jackson . I can't freaking get away from it. My whole family systematically moves out of Jackson , Mississippi and now they are all goi...

Last Sunday, I called my mom. She had told me to call her before I left town to elope with Guy. She had received her second chemo treatment ...

My mother and I are both making new life long commitments. Mine is to the love of my life. Hers is to chemotherapy. I hope her new commitmen...

My mother will start again tomorrow. Chemo. 8:00 AM Pacific time. She will be on a 3 week cycle. Week one, she will have two drugs, taxotere...

Start again tomorrow. This was something that my grandfather always said to me. He used to be the one I would call when I had a bad day. By ...

There are three souls in my life who have been constant comfort the past few years. There is my 10 year old American Eskimo mix who I took i...

For the past week, Daddy has been staying with my brother and sister-in-law in Tennessee . Momma was going to the Presbyterian General Assem...

Denied. Denied. And denied again. Never mind the fact that they are wasting time and now probably money for not just approving the scan. It ...

And the answer is no. Again, the insurance company has said no to the pet scan that my mother needs. There has been no treatment yet for the...

There is a commercial that NBC is running for a new show. In it, a man asks, "In your wildest dreams, am I there?". That, I think,...

Today, my momma's doctor resubmitted the request for her pet scan. Still unable to convince Blue Cross Blue Shield that they weren't...