The Gift
May 15, 2019
On just an ordinary day, has someone ever taken you by surprise and given you an unexpected extraordinary gift?
Gwinnett Citizen Columnist
Stuff
April 13, 2019
What defines you? The labels in the clothes you wear? The kind of car you drive? Do you tend to slide down the slippery slope of materialism and let stuff define your worth? Or, do you prefer to take a more practical and realistic approach to see stuff for what it is?
S.O.S.
March 12, 2019
Last night I tossed and turned and prayed to God for His guidance about this column and asked the question, “How do I write about such a troubling subject matter? What words am I to use?” I let go. And, the answer came to me in early morning hours, “S.O.S.”
A Walk in the Garden
September 1, 2017
As a whippoorwill calls out from one of the nearly century-old pine trees in the backyard, I smile, take pause, sip my tall cup of coffee – strong and black, no sugar – and continue my walk in the garden and a talk with God.
My Destiny
May 9, 2017
When I was in my mid-twenties and practicing clinical nursing on a medical-surgical unit at Egleston Children’s Hospital, I provided care to a very ill little girl. She was about two years old and had a myriad of life-threatening issues that plagued her.
As the parent goes, so goes the child…sort of
May 2, 2017
(Not So) Common Sense… There are a lot of ways to say it. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” “Monkey see, monkey do.”
The Emotionally Traumatized Cat
February 28, 2017
Any of you who know my son James will understand that Snell and I are very lucky to have only four cats in the livestock pen, AKA our house. Each and every one was a foundling and has his or her story. All of their stories deal with jerks– humans.
Underweight life changes
August 15, 2016
Ask Ellie
I’ve read and heard lots on dietary changes to get skinny. Except I’m underweight and I need some advice on changing my lifestyle to gain weight. ~Diet
Vacuuming sure isn’t what it used to be
August 11, 2016
Technology amazes me. What it’s accomplished in my lifetime is simply fascinating. We have the world at our fingertips, in a tiny little smart-gadget that brings us more than a computer that occupied an entire 40-degree room used to do.
