It is a rainy Thanksgiving evening when I follow Ansley McGukin up the sidewalk to the cottage that she and her new husband,…
Small Pretties
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Several weeks ago, I stumbled across the ad for an event called Music on Main, taking place in one of my hometowns. I…
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My nightstand clock shows it is close to midnight and I am trying desperately to relax enough to fall asleep. The summer heat…
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I have often thought of my life in terms of a jigsaw puzzle. If I dumped the pieces of my life out on…
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“Want to hear a story?” my dad quietly asks between sips of coffee. “Always,” I say. We sit in a small café and…
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Every autumn I find myself facing the same problem: I am completely lost about what to cook for the humans that call my…
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What is it about a handmade quilt? A common gift in the South, these patchwork tapestries are the first thing that we reach…
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On my bedside table sits a rock. Yes, you read that correctly, a rock. Not a beautiful leather-bound journal or a delicate tray…
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The Simple, Yet Significant List This scrap of paper sits in my Bible. It’s a torn piece from a receipt pad used in…