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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. MLK One of the great gifts of growing up in the South is knowing that there is Good and then there is Evil. Good [...]
If it is true what they say about necessity being the mother of invention, then Kathy Patrick is the Mother of Creative Genius. When the publishing business took a nose dive and she was let go from her job as a sales rep, Kathy hiked up her petticoat and tightened up her bustier and decided [...]
If the NRA were a religion (and let’s face it, it is the only religion many people ascribe to), they would be members of the Hellfire & Brimstone camp. The ones who are always yelling in your face, spitting all over the first two rows as they toss out dire predicament after dire predicament. [...]
If you need any more proof of what a conflicted people we have become, you have only to turn to Jodie Foster’s confession on national television about her struggles to lead an authentic life. As we say in the Deep South: Jodie Foster went all the way around her elbow to reach her mouth. [...]
You ever have one of those ah-ha moments when you discover something you would never would have had somebody not asked you the right question? I had one of those moments while answering some questions posed to me about my writing. Somebody had asked me something about MOTHER OF RAIN and in answering that question, [...]
So while I was busy wrapping up the manuscript for my upcoming novel — MOTHER OF RAIN — the National Father’s Day Council named former president Bill Clinton Father of the Year. Really? Father of the Year? The Huffington Post reports: National Father’s Day Committee chairman Dan Orwig commended the politician and philanthropist for his “profound [...]
Congress gave it the designation of the National House of Prayer. The funerals of three presidents have been held there: Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford. Memorial services for many other presidents and their spouses have also been held in the National House of Prayer, including Eleanor Roosevelt. The very first national memorial [...]
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would undoubtedly complain if Jesus Christ himself was singled out by this administration for a job. Jesus, I’m sure, wouldn’t be mainstream (read conservative) enough for Mr. Graham. Graham is pitching a hissy-fit over Obama’s selection of former Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. Graham took to the airwaves on Sunday ranting [...]
I have not been to Europe since 1957. We left Germany when I was six weeks old. Needless to say, I remember nothing about the land of my birth. Army Base. Stuttgart. Mama never had much good to say about her time in Germany. Mostly because my birth – four days of labor and face [...]
Mama ordered a $10 plastic urn. The nit-pickiest woman on planet earth – the very same woman who pitched a hissy fit if my roots were showing, or if I went to town without lipstick on, the woman who spent the last hours of her life shopping for the perfect leather purse — picked [...]
In 1966, when we got word of my father’s death, it was my brother’s crying that frightened me most. The way he beat at the wall and yelled about the men he would grow up and kill one day. Mama had worried that her death would undo Frank. Maybe she’d remembered his cries from [...]
Shelby Jean Mayes Spears, 75, died after a brief bout of cancer at her son’s home in Auburn, WA. on December 26, 2012. Born on January 23, 1937, to John Harve Mayes and Ruth Matilda Shropshire Mayes of Rogersville, TN., Shelby was the youngest of six children and the family’s only girl. Surrounded by all [...]
Death is the most decisive moment in human life. It is like our coronation: to die in peace with God. – Mother Teresa Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence. – Helen Keller When all the noise is gone there is only God. ~Author Unknown
The men are all gathered around the TV. Daughter Shelby is hanging out with friends she hasn’t seen since high school graduation, ten years ago. Konnie is in the kitchen preparing treats for a Christmas Eve gathering. Grandson Sullivan and his parents are visiting the other grandparents. And the dogs — Poe, Poppy, Portia, Dallie, [...]
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