Innocence I was six when Billy Stone said to come with him down to the hollow. “I got something to show you.” Innocent and immature, I followed along. In the small ravine behind our... Read more >>

On the radio the other day, there was a guest promoting some book she wrote about children and parents. I listened absently off and on, but I did catch one particular story that she told. The author... Read more >>

I lie awake and just stare a baby girl beside me the innocence untouched by society by indifference by incredible hardships I see a smile all through the night on and off I wonder what she is... Read more >>

I’m in an online coaching program right now. Each week the journaling software provides me with an online guided journaling prompt. This week I was asked a very provocative question:... Read more >>

When I was a little girl, there was no doubt I was a tomboy, through and through. There was simply no better way to spend the long hot Georgia summer days than to run barefoot through fresh-cut grass,... Read more >>

When I was very young, someone stole a most valuable thing from me...my childhood. I was too small to understand what was happening, or that it wasn’t normal, or that it was wrong, but a person... Read more >>

The girl in the red coat is not what this story is about. This story is about a friend of the girl in the red coat. This friend is one who knows all there is to know about cob spiders and their webs.... Read more >>

As a child, I had a very strong belief in Santa—so strong that when Sister Grace Miriam announced to our third grade class that there was no such thing as Santa, I got into trouble telling her... Read more >>

Being a woman and being the way I am, those who know me would have thought that I would be writing for my granddaughters, who are still somewhere waiting to come to me. Instead, you came to my life as... Read more >>

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”—William Blake Straight after school, Sachi and... Read more >>