Small Town News

                                    One of my favorite traditions at Christmas is putting out my Nativity sets. One of them, a six-inch-tall hand carved scene,...

                          Last year my children announced they’d spend Christmas with their significant others--and their families. I wasn’t surprised, but I was...

Andy William’s Classic “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is hands down my favorite song. But for a lot of people, it’s not the most wonderful time of the year. It can be a time of great sadness and stress....

                                        The word Christmas sends streams of memories into our brains and our hearts. During this season we have...

I’m writing this article about Thanksgiving traditions, and I’m dedicating it to my mother-in-law, Ottie Franklin. She had five children, multiple grandchildren, and even more multiples of great grandchildren. And she knew how to make...

You might recall my article on small town famous. I discussed how everybody knows everybody, and much like celebrities we don’t have a lot of privacy. But I’ve noticed a phenomenon lately, one I’ve named small town...

I was never going to own chickens. Too much work and too much mess. Oh, wait! Those were the same reasons I would never have three dogs. And yet here I am. I won’t go into politics or religion—we have multiple other avenues for those...

My dogs are spoiled—I won’t refute that fact. John and I should both do more to…well, do more. But we are who we are, and so are the dogs. John rehomed the alligators from the pond by the ranch house, so we decided to give our...

John was watching a television show the other evening, about a man grieving the loss of his father. His mother and brothers shared wonderful stories before the funeral, about the last words they’d had with the deceased. “Dad...