Beige is the color of fear. I first heard this phrase at our Calhoun Area Writers’ meeting almost two years ago. I was new and nervous, stepping out on a quivering branch to follow a life-long dream of being a writer. Paul Moses, a talented writer and head of graphic design for Royal Thai Carpets,… Continue reading Beige is the color of fear
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.
The Candlemaker | Wake Forest Magazine
Here is a follow-up to my latest post about the Moravian traditions in Greensboro and Winston-Salem - a great read on a 94 year old woman who makes the beeswax candles used for the Wake Forest Lovefeast. http://magazine.wfu.edu/2017/12/01/the-candlemaker/
Christmas Past and Present
Last Sunday morning, a week before Christmas Eve, I finally hung our Moravian star on the front porch. In the hustle and bustle of the season I hadn’t taken it out of its Home Depot box and gotten Keith to patiently put the plastic triangles together. I missed it shining out there at night and… Continue reading Christmas Past and Present
Little Things
Do you have something in your house that has been broken for years, but you've just gotten used to it? That's how we've been with the ceiling fans in several of the rooms in our house. Over the years they had quit working for one reason or another. The one in our bedroom still turned,… Continue reading Little Things
Through the maze
For the last few weeks, my morning commute to work has involved going through a maze of detours and stop signs. The entire intersection and bridge crossing over Interstate 75 near my school is being redone. Watching the progress of the workers as they have shifted traffic over the last 8-9 months for this huge… Continue reading Through the maze
Under the Magnolia Tree 