My favorite season? Fall. No question about it. I look forward to cooler weather (I am a jeans and sweater kind of girl), nights with a nip in the air, college football games, and changing leaves. I have already spotted evidence around school that fall is on the way in. Knocking softly at the door. …
Category: life
Going back in time: A life resumed
I wrote the following post in February 2009, two months after returning from my six month sabbatical in Arles, France. I was feeling a bit nostalgic this morning and started looking back through old posts. I didn't have many readers then and the blog (and my writing) was just a baby. At that point, I …
Bleu Part Deux
As I was driving home from the mountains today, I realized that I left off some bleu/blue things that I love. (I could blame it on Moo and Mama Mildred for distracting me, I guess.) Do you ever have the blues? In France, the saying is avoir le cafard- to have the cockroach. Where on …
If God’s not a Tar Heel fan…
then why is the sky Carolina Blue? That's a question I've heard most of my life. Actually, I am pretty sure that God has a lot on his plate right about now... hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorists, people who feel so alone that they don't know what to do or who to turn to. Who wins a …
Courage
Photo credit: Tasha Tolliver So, what exactly is courage? I've just spent more than a few minutes looking at definitions of this noun. I believe that if I found just the right one it would have this woman's photo next to it. According to Oxford English Living Dictionaries on-line, courage is defined as: the ability …
“Grateful for everything, entitled to nothing”
This is Jim McIngvale. A man I had never heard of until yesterday. AKA Mattress Mack. The Clarion-Ledger ran an article about him yesterday and that's where I found the quote that is the title of today's post. In today's Durham Herald-Sun newspaper, I read an editorial from the Charlotte Observer. It touched me, so …
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Small things, great things, great love
It is hard to believe. September has arrived. It came in rainy yesterday here in my little corner of North Carolina. Hurricane season. My thoughts continue to be with the people in Texas who lost family, pets, and all of their worldly belongings. Stuff is stuff and can be replaced, but some of the stuff …
Being real
image: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/the-velveteen-rabbit/?lp=true As Son #1 and Son #2 will tell you, I am a sap when it comes to children's books. I loved reading to those two little critters. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams was my favorite. At the beginning of this school year, one of my colleagues quoted the Rabbit, using the short …
Dear Ten-Year-Old Teresa
Am I the only one who thinks about this stuff-- Who am I? Why am I the way I am? How did I get to this place? What makes me different than everyone else? I have spent more than a little bit of my time trying to figure out the answers to those questions. I …
Happy New Year!
(Gonza Tacos y Tequila, Durham, NC- site of our faculty party) My new year doesn't begin in January. It begins in August. It has for all but the first five years of my life. For the last 38, I've been in charge, seated behind the "big desk" as a friend used to put it. Well, …
the sabbatical chef 