JAMIE DENTY

During the holidays, a friend loaned me several books to read. The first I picked up, A Redbird Christmas, by Fannie Flagg, was a delight...

Within the past few months, I’ve needed to make a dessert on the spur of the moment. Each time I turned to a recipe which is easy to...

"No! No! A thousand times no!" It's not an exaggeration either. Everyone talks about the Terrible Twos, when a child first begins to...

On a cold, crisp winter day, we sat near a roaring fire at the DeSoto State Park Lodge Restaurant in Northern Alabama. As we enjoyed the...

Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength. Martial artist Bruce Lee. If Covid-19 has taught us anything, it...

... And all that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. Luke 2:18. For a number of years, my husband...

A glass hummingbird feeder, topped with a red metal lid and attached to a red feeding base with six drinking holes, sways gently in the...

My brother-in-law crafted the ceramic nativity scene years ago. The rose and angels were gifts and my dad gave the Bible with a cover...

It stands in a crystal vase on the table. Red petals press tightly into a bud collared by green leaves. Such true colors are usually...

Our daughter-in-law's 2019 table arrangement Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to...

According to historians, corn was probably on the menu at the First Thanksgiving in 1621. The source for that belief lies in a letter...

In sundry small towns across the Heartland, murals, one, two or even three stories tall, decorate the entire outer wall of an old...

A child’s imagery may often be incongruous, but vivid. Imagine, along with a five-year-old on a magnificent autumn day, that the heavens...

Yes! I’m shouting! As we drove along U. S. Highway 341 N on May 21, toward Newnan, GA, to attend the high school graduation ceremonies...

I consciously observe the laws of the land. I even use cruise control when I travel so that I don’t creep over the speed limit. I do so,...

I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I’ve left my chair, my house, my road, my town and my world behind me. I’m...

Fletcher’s Corny Dogs at the State Fair of Texas are still every bit as good as memory. The deep-fried, cornmeal-crusted wiener remains a...

American Beauty Berries I always feel the movement is sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great...

After this column ran, author Tyler L. Boyd, great, great-grandson of Febb Burn wrote to tell me that he enjoyed reading this column. He...

A toddler, that’s what she is. She’s mastering the art of mobility on two legs. But, she is so much more. Explorer, is perhaps the better...