JAMIE DENTY

Having the luxury to spend a full week to wash my windows made this necessary chore actually very pleasant. Removing a build up of dirt...

When I was only a daughter, my mother seemed assured in her judgment. She never faltered and I felt safe. As a mother I often question my...

He’s not grown yet; he just thinks he is. Mother says, “I don’t know, he’s still mighty young.” But Daddy replies, “He’s old enough.” And...

With a burst of energy, she cleaned out a cranny where she had stored some odds and ends. These were keepsakes several years old. At the...

It has been said that anticipation is half the fun of any event. Anticipation is… The countdown - 59, 58, 57, of the last seconds before...

Chimney. Standing sentry-like in an overgrown field, Void of surrounding structure. Where is your house? Where is your family? Chimneys....

...and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as a rose. Isaiah 35:1. A single white rose with the tips of each petal tinged in soft pink...

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my...

“Two-year-olds are so much fun because they will try to say anything you tell them to say, like alfalfa, Okefenokee, George Washington,”...

He’s a little tyke. But, he’s almost ready to start school. He even has some of that readiness stuff down pat. You know, he gets along...

The December 2017 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine, in two separate articles, features observations about kindness. In one, Britain’s...

My column, "For the Birds", as published in the Spring 2018 edition of Tributaries Magazine, of Tribune and Georgian

Nobody thought much about the front porch when most Americans had them and used them. The great American front porch was just there, open...

Swoosh! It was an everyday Wednesday when we stepped onto our back porch to eat breakfast. This morning on the coast, the air teased us...

Here I sit , a woman of the 1970s in a 1870s church. Only a narrow board offers back support on the crude, rough-hewn bench which serves...

The old farm bell, cast in metal and painted an earthen color to prevent rust, stood just outside the door of the Atkinson County home...

In discussing recipes with my sister-in-law, she related a phone call she once received. After having served one of her favorite dishes...

Shortly after Bob and I moved to Georgia, we visited his dad’s older brother. Our drop-in visit around five o’clock one Sunday afternoon...

As we entered Big Bend National Park in Texas, the ranger sent us on our way with a map, a brochure and encouragement, “Make it a good...

Often touted as the most scenic drive in Texas, National Geographic claims Farm to Market Road 170, Camino del Rio (the River Road),...