This is all my fault, I berated myself as I held my wailing newborn, Micah, tight against me…
Possum Trot is so small you can’t find it on a map (not even on Google). We’re “back…
Ever since I moved to Florida, I’d spent Thanksgiving with my mother. Dinner was always the traditional American…
Christmas Eve morning and my four-year-old daughter, Hailey, was in the hospital again, this time in a brand-new…
Mother’s Day will arrive in just a few days. It’s a time when children and spouses give gifts…
I think the only thing more special than having children at Christmas is having grandchildren. Don’t get me…
Fat drops of rain spattered against my face. I ducked under an overhang and set down the heavy…
My younger sister, Lauren, and her husband, Scott, pulled up to my house in their 18-year-old car, their…
My daughter Rachel stood in the kitchen in a floral sundress, her brown hair up in a ponytail.…
Rodney Stotts is the founder of Rodney’s Raptors, an organization that exposes people to nature and educates them…
Wide awake, I sat up in bed before a hint of light entered the room. I’d had another…
You’ve put it off for months, maybe years, but the dawn has arrived, and it’s time to thoroughly…
