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Being a 90s girl who loves movies and books, I first learned of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar through hearing it mentioned by Julia Stiles character in the movie Ten Things I Hate About You, which is not only an awesome teen movie, but is loosely based on Shakespeare’s Taming…

This Women’s History Month I would like to honor a woman who has left an immeasurable impression on me; my mother-in-law Mrs. Mary “Lou” Louise Monica.

I’m sure many of you have noticed, as I have, our social media feeds flooded with the images of everyone we know and even plates of food being treated to an AI glow up.

When I was little my family had a pretty set Sunday routine: church, then lunch at Chili’s followed by sitting inside our parked car “people watching” at the Arboretum shopping center near our house.

It’s no secret if you know me, or even if you have had to talk to me for an extended period of time, my favorite author is hands down Lucy Maud Montgomery, aka L.M. Montgomery, and the writer of the Anne of Green Gables series [Yes, I said series— check…

From the ages of 9 to 18 I played girls’ soccer for what I personally feel is one of the best athletic associations around: Indian Trail Athletic Association in Union Co., NC at good old Edna Love Park.

While living in upstate [Redbud] New York, or the snow belt, this Southern girl learned a few things about winter weather.

As a child growing up in the American South, every winter was met with an eager anticipation that there could possibly, maybe, with divine providence, be a snow day.

Being a reader from a young age, I learned about the Holocaust before most of my classmates due to my mom’s encouragement to read her heroine, Corrie Ten Boom’s book, “The Hiding Place,” a novel about her family’s experience in Germany under Adolf Hitler’s rule. From the moment I read…

A fan of Charles Dickens I am not.