JAMIE DENTY

Everything in our house has a story to tell. I believe a house feels more like a home when its full of stories. Interior designer Diana...

When my husband and I first married, his mother gave me several potted plants for our kitchen window. When she visited us some six months...

Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren’t. ~ Japanese Proverb I like proverbs. I like knowing some people...

When Julia had first read Little Women, she told her sisters about the four fictional sisters in the book, and they began to argue over...

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has been in the news recently, not because of the book, but because of the latest version of it on film,...

If you’ve read about chili, you have come to the conclusion that no one dares put beans in chili in Texas. If you believe the reports,...

Recently, I completed a three-hour, computerized safe driver’s course for insurance purposes. While we might bemoan such requirements, a...

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17...

On the morning of July 23, after several weeks without rain, we watched a beautiful rainbow arch against a blue sky between fluffy white...

For as long as I can remember, I have used a heating pad, either electric or microwave heated, to ease a variety of aches and pains. Most...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever...

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten,...

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. Fred Rogers I...

Ever since we moved to South Georgia where camellias bloom in yards around town, they have  become my favorite flowers. Because my...

While I claim to be a frequent eater, what I’m actually referring to is snacking: those little pick-me-ups that get me through the...

Beware of what you ask for; you may get it. At 20 months, the towheaded tyke says little, but sees a lot. He pokes and pries into every...

At sunset, a shrimp boat heads homeward via Sapelo River. Recently, we went with friends to a seafood restaurant outside of Richmond...

You can’t define quality, but you know it when you see it. A local contractor. The contractor was talking about construction, but his...

Perfection comes of molds or off assembly lines…And the great irony is that we value things made by hand more than we do things that come...

The question is not ‘Can you make a difference?’ You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want...