How Telling is Your Transformation?
The news alert came across my car radio. A huge bolt of lightning had struck a California beach out of the blue in the middle of a beautifully sunny day, leaving one person dead and more than a dozen injured, one critically. I listened as the desk anchor cut to the scene where a field reporter was waiting to interview an eye witness. I'm still shaking
The Planet’s Best Coping Mechanism
Life can be hard even when it's good. Amen? People adopt various and sundry ways of dealing with daily stress. Some coping mechanisms are healthy, others not so much. Who among us doesn't know someone who is ruining his or her life by trying to calm their souls with drugs and alcohol? Other coping mechanisms are just downright strange. I fell down an Internet hole earlier by
Gracing the Public Square
I love words. If you’ve been sitting on the All Things Southern porch for any time at all, that did not come as a news flash. Still, should validation ever be necessary, my darling husband would tell you that ample proof abounds in the home we share here on the banks of a lake in a town called by God’s name. Words grace our walls, adorn
Savoring as an Art Form!
What do you get when you bake chocolate muffins, top them with small mountains of peanut butter mousse frosting, and cool them in the fridge, before dipping them upside down into the type of melted hot chocolate that forms a hard shell over that melt in your mouth icing? Answer: Very, happy, All Things Southern baby czars, wired for sound. I’m pretty sure my daughter