Sarah was home from school this weekend. She had been away for a month which seemed like 79,000 years to me but that’s in Mama Years. I hope you appreciate the great framing of this photo; I made sure to include little stashes of junk on either side of her, just to let her beauty shine through more. As always, she and I have so…

Last Thursday I took a trip to Greenville which, for me at least, is the medical/thrift store/Chick-fil-A capital of the world. And on that particular trip, I hit ’em all–got a sandwich at Chick-fil-A, bought a pair of cute, comfortable shoes at the thrift store (which were marked down from $8 to twenty-five cents) and visited a new (to me) medical building–East Carolina Heart Institute. Since…

Last Monday at this time, we had no clue what the following days were going to bring. Catastrophic flooding. Cat 4 winds. No home to return to. The predictions were so dire I could hardly wrap my mind around them.…

If you’ve been keeping up with hurricane news . . . you’ve seen the storm has shifted and high winds on the Outer Banks are not as much of a concern as flooding is.…