Miss Alabama…Lauren Bradford!

What, you may ask, does a marshmallow have to do with parenting? Well, it’s mighty tasty melted with milk chocolate between two graham crackers over an open fire. And certainly, many a fond parent-child memory has been created in the back yard or campground making s’mores and telling spooky stories.…

The following blog post is Chapter 15 from Andy’s classic collection of short stories Return to Sawyerton Springs.   Everyone around the dinner table smiled as Pat Ward put the last dish in front of them. “I know it’s not much…” The whole family laughed out loud. That statement had…

She was one of twelve littermates when we chose her fifteen years ago and believe me, twelve Dalmatian puppies can seem like “a hundred and one” when they come tumbling into a room.  They were six weeks old and (remember the movie…) their spots were just beginning to appear.  The…

Go to any website or bookstore these days and you’ll likely be bombarded with a thousand different pieces of “proven” advice for making money or unlocking your heart’s desire or living the life of your dreams. We’ve never had more resources for solving problems, and yet…it doesn’t seem like we’re…

Hey everyone! We’ve had a lot of new readers find their way to the blog over the past month or so, so I wanted to give everyone a little refresher on just what this blog is all about. This is a post I wrote almost three years ago that I…