Sweetieland

   My days are filled with creating expectations of somehow living up to a personal life set of standards I cannot seem to manage. The truth is I am very imperfect, and my life is filled with proof of it.  As a blended family, the fractures and patches of family relationships leave scars of a very imperfect life….and ones…

   There is something about returning to one’s hometown at Christmas that stirs memories and moments that at other times lay quietly in one’s memories. As we drove from Alabama to Arkansas it was like a part of my brain recognized that we were going home to where I was reared and began to churn…

Sometimes Christmas isn’t a large family gathering….sometimes its being simply two…while your children are elsewhere this year….we wish you a Merry Christmas where ever your family is! May your families be blessed this day with gatherings, phone calls, and special times together….may you put aside daily life and strife and embrace joy and love this day. May we…