Lori Duff Writes
They say that chickens always come home to roost. Now that the Duff family has chickens, I’ve found this to be literally true. In fact, one day, the coop door blew shut. When dusk came the chickens[1] went to put themselves to bed and could not get in the coop. Granted, chickens are painfully stupid. …
“Maisha and the Rainbow Tree” by Jeffrey Blander and the “Save Our Tree Team” is a children’s book about resilience, hope, and hard work. It was inspired by Blander’s real life 7-year old daughter, Rosie, along with her friends, who started a protest when they discovered that a beloved tree in her neighborhood was going…
For years, my daughter sold Girl Scout cookies. That wasn’t the only reason she was a Girl Scout, but it may have been the only reason I encouraged her to be a Girl Scout. I needed my in-house hook up. Y’all, Girl Scout cookies are GOOD. And maybe they teach girls about marketing and entrepreneurship…
“Carrie’s Quest,” by Pam Sievers is a romance novel, sure, but not your typical impossibly-beautiful-twenty-something-woman meets impossibly-handsome-twenty-something-man with both of them making bad decisions based on misunderstandings along the way romance. It doesn’t rely on heat or lust or sexual chemistry to get you through the day. It is a grown-up romance novel. Carrie is…
Colleen and Violet were my Angels. Not the scary fire-and-brimstone kind, but the guardian kind who bring goodness and light and help and possibly a nice snack. My mother was in in-home hospice at the end of a long journey with lung cancer. (I hate cigarettes. I mean, I really hate cigarettes. Not smokers, mind…