

File Under Lessons Learned goes Appalachian Chic!
Well, friends, it's been a wild ride the past few weeks, but the dust is quickly settling and very, VERY soon I will begin posting on a...


Stained Glass Life
Self-reflection can be draining. You start thinking of where you need to improve, all the stupid things you've done in your life, all...
Thoughts on Faith
My maternal grandfather's name is Thomas Ezra Crowder. "T. E." grew up in the era when many men went by T. E. or J.C. or H.L. T. E....
Abstractions and Extrapolations: Part Two
Self-confidence can be a very unpredictable thing. One minute you feel like you're doing okay in life, and the next minute, you feel...
Abstractions and Extrapolations: Part One
Writers write because words form within that simply must come out. It often doesn't matter whether anyone reads the words or not; the...
Thoughts on Failure
So in the wee hours of this morning, after weeks of waiting, after spending one entire week in early April devoting every waking hour to...
Thoughts on Aging
I'm not twenty-four anymore. I'm not thirty-four, either, according to any sort of official "record" - not my birth certificate, or my...
How are you?
How are you? My BFF texted me last night: How are you?!! Such a simple question. How are you?!! Such a sweet and thoughtful and...
Sing, Oh Lovely Mockingbird, Sing!
Many people tell me I should write a book. Well, folks, I've written several. Some are published; some are not (yet). But lately I've...
File Under: Lessons learned from "boiling water"
File Under: Lessons Learned from “boiling water” A quote attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt is coming to thought often these days: “A...