Author: Karen

I was thumbing through some old photos recently and happened on a picture of a friend that I haven’t seen in a long time.  The smile that came over my face was tempered by...

Author and motivational speaker Amy Morin shared an article on LifeHack.org listing 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do a couple of years ago. Her post (and book by the same title) are primarily...

This past week communities in Florida and Georgia felt the force of Hurricane Irma as it made its way across the southeastern United States. Trees were downed and large areas without power are still...

It was 2012. The first Avengers movie took the box office by storm, Carly Rae Jepsen beckoned you to “Call Me Maybe” and Michael Phelps wowed in the London Summer Olympics. On a more...

Blueberry season is normally long over by August, but amazingly our bushes are still yielding a few small berries. I can only think that Atlanta’s excessive early summer rains are the reason for our...

This week’s long-awaited, somewhat over-hyped solar eclipse managed to overshadow almost everything else and completely dominated the news headlines. Moving at roughly a 1000 miles per hour, the moon’s 150 mile wide shadow tracked...

A death in the family. Is anyone ever ready for that kind of news? Especially when it’s sudden and unexpected. The brother of our soon-to-be son-in-law took his life yesterday. The events leading up...

Have you ever seen the letters – TL;DR? They often show up in the comment section of a social media post or on a discussion group.  They mean – “Too Long; Didn’t Read”. As I...

It’s late July in Atlanta and the unusual abundance of rain combined with the typical heat of summer has sent my tomato garden into overdrive. I mean, real overdrive… like I pick 8 gallons...

It’s finally over! After 2 years, 4 months and 11 days, my braces are finally off! Unlike most people who had braces when they are in their teens, I waited considerably longer before having...