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Photos of the Christmas light tour of Rickwood Caverns

This year, Sweetums and I went on a Christmas light tour of Rickwood Caverns in Rickwood State Park in Warrior, Alabama. The Christmas tours were available from Dec. 1-23. We took Sweetums' youngest, Groover, on December 22 and we loved it. The caverns were decorated with lights and there were several elves, a Grinch, Cindy… Continue reading Photos of the Christmas light tour of Rickwood Caverns

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A Christmas Memory: When my brother and I got matching Dolphins jerseys

Following is something I wrote for AL.com in my second month of work there in 2012. The assignment was to write about our favorite childhood Christmas gift, or what we considered to be our Red Rider BB Gun. Actually, my over-sized Raggedy Ann and Andy were my favorites but the memory below was near the… Continue reading A Christmas Memory: When my brother and I got matching Dolphins jerseys

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The Fly children and the boy preacher at Goshen United Methodist Church

From the time I was a child, my parents took my brother Doofus and me to the dinner-on-the-ground each third Sunday in May at Goshen Unite Methodist Church in Tennessee. It’s the church where my grandmother sang as a child and where my mother attended until the family moved to Georgia when she was 11… Continue reading The Fly children and the boy preacher at Goshen United Methodist Church