I have an amazing mother. About a month ago, she asked me if I wanted to have a girls’ weekend just the two of us. In her classic Martha way, she had already thought ahead and figured out that one week after Hannah left we would both need a distraction. I cleared my calendar of … Continue reading Martha Time

If you want to know where my love of wind in my face began, I think I can tell you the story. I pinpoint it back to one snowy day at our mountain home in Clayton. Some family and friends had made it in before the storm so there were many kids of all ages. … Continue reading Faster Daddy Faster!

It’s been a year since Louise took flight. I hadn’t really realized that the date was approaching until tears caught me off guard at the art show a couple of weeks ago. I was watching passersby take in our art. They were connecting with it and chatting with us. Rather suddenly tears rose to my … Continue reading Songs on the Wind

I am a Southern woman. As such, I come from a long line of great Southern cooks. I was born and raised in Atlanta, as were generations of my family before me. While we knew that the Reason for the Season was Christ’s birth, a close second was Christmas dinner. Soul food was standard fare … Continue reading Soul Food