I had a “hack” posted today at the brilliant Parent Hacks site, and I wanted to give a warm welcome to any who might have clicked through to my blog from that post. If you are a Parent Hacks reader, I assume you have kids, and I wanted to point you to my site that is dedicated to kids: FreeStuff4Kids.net Here’s a taste of what you’ll find...

Thirteen things I couldn’t live without in the kitchen: Reynolds Wrap Release – how did I live without this stuff? A really good knife – because chopping vegetables with a cheap knife is a giant pain. An enormous stainless steel bowl – I hate mixing something up and having it fly out of the bowl, and I like being able to double recipes with...

Check out the Socksoff wallpaper collection to get some really nice images for your desktop- it’s one of the best sites for wallpaper I’ve visited in a long time. I appreciate one of my favorite bloggers, David Airey, pointing me to this...

today’s post is the end of Mom’s account of her father’s death. With the dawn of a new day, people began coming to the house with food and to express their condolences – some immediate family members and others from our church family, First Baptist Church, Brownfield. We had purchased Daddy a suit for Christmas; it was under one of the beds...

Continued from yesterday… Neva and I dressed quickly and left for the local hospital. I don’t remember much about the trip. It was a local hospital, not very large and not very far from our home. By the time we got there, there were already ambulances arriving bringing injured people. We were in a waiting area very close to the point of arrival and...

I mentioned in a previous post, when my “Memommy” died, that my mother’s father had been killed when she was a teenager. Since then, Mom has been thinking a lot about that time and what she could and couldn’t remember of it, and decided to write it all down. She ended up with a nice article that we have encouraged her to submit to the...