Meet Marowak, a two-year-old Siberian Husky mix with movie-star eyes, a playful streak and a serious case of wanderlust. At 43 pounds, he is a little more compact than your average Husky, but what he lacks in size he more than makes up for in personality. Marowak approaches life with enthusiasm. A new trail? He’s interested. A weekend road trip? […]
If one is a connoisseur of fine wines, which decidedly I am not, a person could speak knowledgeably about a particular vintage, its bouquet, and its undertones. That kind of discrimination is something to be admired in most cases, that is when it’s not just showing off. Similarly, there are other discriminating tastes one might have or acquire for art or literature, let’s say. But then there’s that other kind […]
Meet Marowak, a two-year-old Siberian Husky mix with movie-star eyes, a playful streak and a serious case of wanderlust. At 43 pounds, he is a little more compact than your average Husky, but what he lacks in size he more than makes up for in personality. Marowak approaches life with enthusiasm. A new trail? He’s interested. A weekend road trip? […]
When reproached by Suellen O’Hara that her treatment of Mr. Kennedy and his infestation of “crawlin’ clothes” was humiliating, Mammy clapped back, “You’d be a sight more humiliated if Mr. Kennedy’s lice gets on ya.” Of course, that’s from Gone with the Wind, and the subject is worth expounding upon all these years later. I mean humiliation, but not necessarily […]
After months of teasing, bumping, grinding, and more than a little tassel twirling, Trump went full monty this week by endorsing Attorney General Ken Paxton over Senator John Cornyn in the race for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate seat that Cornyn currently holds. Well, maybe not full monty as Trump is continuing to tease J. D. Vance […]
Have you ever seen a full-grown woman speak of her father in a way that belies the grandmother she is now as she reveals the Daddy’s girl that she has always been? Or the man who talks of his mother as though she might appear from the next room when she has been resting in her grave for decades? Emily […]
Perhaps you’ve heard this one before, but it was new to me when it came across my social media this week in a brief video clip by a beautiful young woman whose postings I watch frequently. She simply said something like, “I am so deeply distrustful, I look both ways when crossing a one-way street.” Boy, how that resonated with […]
Meet Pray, a six-year-old, 83-pound Cane Corso mix with a calm presence and a face you will not forget. With her pointed ears, soft expression, and that slightly wrinkled forehead, she has a look that feels both strong and gentle at the same time. Pray moves through life at her own pace. She is not in a rush, and she […]
They were called stewardship dinners, as I recall, and they were at least as important as the Christmas cantata and the annual Lottie Moon drive to raise money for international missions of the Southern Baptist stripe. They were catered affairs as opposed to the covered-dish suppers that I much preferred. The most engaged members of the congregation would be there, […]
Some dogs feel like a coincidence. Others feel meant to be. Serendipity, or Sera if you’re on a first-name basis, falls firmly in the second category. She’s a nearly four-year-old, 75-pound black-and-white beauty with a soft, fluffy coat and a calm presence that changes the energy of a room the moment she settles in. After raising a litter of puppies, […]
It must have been in some long-ago class devoted to social studies that I first became aware of such a thing as the Continental Divide. Probably in elementary school, I should think, and probably skewed in favor of the divide as it exists in the United States. Of course, it runs through both American continents, from the Bering Strait to […]
