Travel to SPAIN with Sally in 2026!

by Sally Hendrick, Editor in Chief

On my walk the other day, I found myself being pulled underneath a grove of Magnolia trees. My mother planted one in our front yard that grew to be the biggest, most beautiful one in town. If you slip into its cover, it's almost impossible to be seen, but close to...

by Sheila VanZile, Author

"NO" is a complete sentence.

Doesn’t require justification, doesn’t need explanation, it can simply be.

How many times in your life have you wanted to say a simple “no” to a request or a demand, and found yourself agreeing in spite of your resistance to accept, comply, o...

by Yvonne Andes

The summer of 1968 was brutal

The heat, the Vietnam war was still raging, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, Martin Luther King’s assassination in April. It seemed death had the country by the throat. And now there were rumblings on the news about something called the Manson Family com...

Have you ever looked at a huge tree that’s so beautiful on one side, but when you walk around it, there’s a place that’s rotting from the inside out? It looks fine from the road, but the side facing the woodsy-unknown is falling apart.

It will soon die. The entire tree, not just the back side.

If ...