My first granddaughter, Kelsey, is at college in Virginia — two states and 400 highway miles away. Sweet Briar College is a four-year girls’ school with a small student population on a large rural campus (3,250 acres). The college is set in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, in an area where the Blue Ridge [...]
Every four years, about half of the voters in America demand “change” — that would be the half whose chosen party hasn’t been in power in Washington for the last four years. Let’s face it, folks there are people who are either fanatic or apathetic, and many who are somewhere in between, on all sides [...]
I’ve been on a quick vacation in North Carolina, getting together and catching up with cousins, shopping at little local shops my cousins found for me, and eating foods I don’t usually cook. I feel like a new woman or at least a different one. Around mid-week, my cousin Mimi decided I should be introduced [...]
The 33rd Shekinah Christian School Festival starts at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7 and continues through Saturday, Sept. 8. It will be held at the school, 10040 Lafayette-Plain City Road, Plain City. The festival is the school’s main fundraising event, and profits go toward helping keep tuition affordable. I’ve been buying tickets in hopes [...]
When I was first married, my aunt Ruth gave me a choice: would I like for her to give me a shower or a nice heavy roasting pot? Well, you know me: I chose the pot. My first roasting pot, or Dutch oven, was Wilton Ware. It was made in Sidney, Ohio of shiny cast [...]
One morning last week, I woke very early — before the crack of dawn, you might say. It was 2:30 a.m., and I dozed a little and fought getting up until 4 a.m., when I couldn’t stand it any longer. I always feel virtuous when I’m up and going ahead of everyone else. By the [...]
My cousin Jeanette comes to stay with us for a few days in July to attend the annual Longaberger Basket Bee. As a transplanted North Carolinian, I look forward to it every year — yes. Family in town. This year, Jeanette’s visit coincided with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (the London that’s part of [...]
I was born in Virginia but I didn’t grow up in the South. I did, however, go to North Carolina every summer for two weeks vacation with my parents. We stayed at Grandmother and Granddaddy Clark’s brick colonial home in Winston Salem. There were enough bedrooms for mother and daddy to have their own. I [...]
