This past May was a time of celebrating, remembering, and just a few tears--happy tears. My oldest graduated from my alma mater and now hers, Wesleyan College. The graduating seniors voted for two parents to speak at the Baccalaureate service. It was a great honor to be one of the two chosen. As I told… Continue reading A Star in the Dark
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Spread Your Wings and Soar
This past Saturday many young women walked across the stage I've walked across, and they received the piece of paper that is so much more than that--it's the results of minutes and hours and days and years of listening and learning and writing and critiquing and speaking and sharing and thinking and challenging themselves to… Continue reading Spread Your Wings and Soar
Best Advice for Graduates…..and everyone else
I've listened to a lot of graduation addresses. I've even given one once many moons ago. Last year I contemplated how different that would have been if I were to write it now. But now, now I have heard very possibly the best advice ever given in one of these speeches. For graduates. For all… Continue reading Best Advice for Graduates…..and everyone else
For the Seniors, and those who will be
Sunday night when I sat and listened to conversations among those about to graduate from my Alma Mater, I heard the stress and excitement and anxiety in their voices, in their days, in their plans. As I listen to so many who are about to graduate, so many who are wrapping up their school year, I hear… Continue reading For the Seniors, and those who will be
What I’d Say
It was twenty-seven years ago today that I graduated from high school. Wow. I graduated from the same high school that my Daddy graduated from, and we even had a couple of the same teachers. He graduated before segregation and before the new campus was built--his school combined with two other schools to form the one I attended.… Continue reading What I’d Say
Hey Girl
I originally wrote this when my Aub was away for a few days on 7/21/2008. I can only imagine how precious the Hey Girl will be in a few months, when she goes off to college. As we prepare for her graduation tomorrow night, I am waxing reminiscent. I realize that since I've written this,… Continue reading Hey Girl
The Memory of Yesterday, The Legacy of Tomorrow
This weekend marks 23 years since I graduated from college. I don't think of it every year, but for many reasons, this year it's been on my mind. It was four years before that I spent a week choosing between Wesleyan and Georgia Southern. Yeah, you don't get much more polar opposites that those two, do you? … Continue reading The Memory of Yesterday, The Legacy of Tomorrow
Ain’t nobody gonna help you
Tuesday when the littles and I were headed back from the Grand Opera House to where we'd parallel parked (you may take a moment to be impressed--ha) on a side street, I saw this display in the window of a bookstore. As I stood there taking it all in, I thought about what Daddy said when I… Continue reading Ain’t nobody gonna help you
I Might Need A Nap 