There’s a cute country song – Good Directions – that Billy Currington sings these days. It’s about a country boy selling fresh turnip greens off the back of his truck as he crunches on a pork rind. This girl, the prettiest one he has ever seen, comes along with a “Hollywood” license plate and asks […]
This past weekend I had the best time. I was back in the saddle again with the cowboys. It was just a different group of them this time. The threat of rain was quickly gone as the sprinkles subsided and the stars could be clearly seen as dark approached. Flowertown Elementary School in Summerville, SC […]
I was driving back from Charleston early this morning. I would say it was just the usual uneventful drive back after a very pleasant weekend. That is, until something on the car started sounding different. Different really was not the word for it. It was a shrilling sound of metal hitting metal when I put […]
It’s no surprise that we’re getting older every day. At this stage in my life, I’m actually glad to have every day I do. It’s when someone from your past comes up to you and says, “Ms. Cook, do you remember me? I was in your group of middle school students at Great Falls!” that […]
I grew up knowing all too well what coal was. Let’s just say coal and I were “up close and personal.” You see, we used it for our main heat source in the front of our home. The structure was an old Camp Croft army barracks my mother and father bought after the camp closed […]