Sad story to report….Some of you will think me silly, but I truly love animals and nature and I hate to see any animal die for unnecessary reasons. This incident is especially sad, for what I explain at the end. Late Monday afternoon I stopped work to water my backyard plants using water from […]
Patience, Grasshopper:
In early August, late one Sunday evening–August 7 to be precise– I was gathering habanero peppers. It was hot and I was tired. The pepper plants were short and so, to avoid bending over, I’d plopped myself down and was sitting in the grass, picking peppers off one plant at a time. I would gather […]
Storyteller Taylor Robinson: How to Shine
We were designed by a creator to be creative and if you want to shine, you need to find the thing you love to do and do that. Those are just slightly-paraphrased words of wisdom from Taylor Robinson, the guest on episode 9 of the Discover Grow Shinecast. You can find the media player below […]
Red Mountain Grace
Jason Carroll, co-founder of Red Mountain Grace, is the guest on episode 32 of Birmingham Shines podcast. Red Mountain Grace is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides residential assistance to out-of-town families in need who must be in Alabama on an extended basis to receive medical treatments. The organization exemplifies what it means to offer grace […]
How Do We See Each Other?
Sometime last year—summer, I think—I happened to click on an email notification from Facebook, alerting me that someone had tagged me in some post. I usually just delete those without opening the emails. Note to self…. Not sure why I’m actually getting an email from Facebook about people tagging me. I thought I’d turned off […]