My friends and I had enjoyed a Saturday afternoon show at the Fox Theater in Atlanta and stopped in Marietta for an early dinner. As the sun was setting over the strip malls and car dealerships of Barrett Parkway, we climbed into my red Prius and headed home to the quiet of the Northwest Georgia… Continue reading Check your light
Author: maflake
I am a retired middle school media specialist, a writer, a wife and mother, a runner, a reader, a gardener and a seeker of God. I live in an antebellum home in Northwest Georgia with my husband.
Trash or Treasure?
The week before Christmas, I visited my cousin Garner at her home at Kure Beach, North Carolina. I flew in on Sunday after church just in time to see her husband Butch play Santa Claus in the Kure Beach Christmas Show by the pier. I loved it! Butch was hilarious dancing and rapping with all… Continue reading Trash or Treasure?
The Year I Skipped Christmas
Let’s be honest - how many of you right now are feeling like you would love to skip Christmas?
Are you thankful or grateful?
It’s Thanksgiving week and time to focus on what we are thankful for. The key word at my church the last month has been gratitude. Because I’m a ‘word nerd’, I got to thinking — what’s the difference between gratitude and thankfulness? Weuse them interchangeably and the dictionary lists them as synonyms, but theymust have… Continue reading Are you thankful or grateful?
Planting Hope
On a beautiful warm day before the rain and cold weather came, I got outside and planted bulbs. I had bought some boxes of daffodils and little irises for half off at Home Depot and I had a bag of bulbs given to me last spring that I hoped were still good. I grabbed… Continue reading Planting Hope
Under the Magnolia Tree 