But Whatever You Do…Don’t Take My Pie.
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan Do you do this? I mean…I don’t do it with PIE of course…I love pie. I’m probably going to just hide the four pieces and not let the other people know they’re there. And then I’ll eat them when no one is looking. BUT…if it’s not pie? I do this all the time. I put the family’s wants/needs... Read More
What I Was Grateful For
While media attention has shifted entirely away from Alabama and the struggles here, I wanted to make sure I didn’t. This is simply a light-hearted reminder of what we went through which is 1/1000th of what people are still going through. THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE MISSING. Homes are still gone. Children are still dead. Please don’t forget we still need help down here. THINGS I WAS UNEXPECTEDLY GRATEFUL FOR DURING THE POWER OUTAGE My lack of commitment to the electric... Read More
The Beginning Of The End
I was looking forward the release of this trailer last Wednesday. And then the power went out. AND THEN EVERYONE KEPT TALKING ABOUT IT. As soon as life settled down with power, internet and food…I watched this trailer OVER and OVER again. And I cried like a little baby. Yes…there are obvious changes. But you know what? There have been in every movie. I’ve learned to trust the producers, directors and most of all: Steve Kloves over the years. He has written... Read More
This Cloud Was Nothing BUT Silver Lining
So…we were without power for 100+ hours. But we never once got upset or down about it because, as the power went out we already new that devastation in other parts of the state was much worse. Now, we didn’t know the severity, but we knew enough to be grateful we had our home and our lives. Power? Eh. Who cares. Even when we got word it would be five days (which – for the record – took me several times to actually believe) we still couldn’t get too... Read More
