For what it's worth

It is Monday, the first day of my Cabbage Soup Diet. The internet site, where I found the information and recipe, warns that one should onl...

Two years ago, I reached my heaviest weight ever in my life. Most of my life I had been thin, both naturally and because I was a runner. B...

I really had a hard time writing this post. I started it several times and abandoned it. This last installment is about our jury deliverin...

In Part 4 of this blog, I wrote about how Dave Domberg and his gang got into the drug dealing business with the objective of gaining complet...

Much of the story of the Austin Gay murder trial is how I remember it, although I was able to find some old newspaper articles to help verif...

Before you read this post, please read Parts 1 and 2 first. First impressions can be very powerful. First impressions can be very right. O...

Before you read this post, please read Before You Judge, Part 1. For this part of the diary, I want to explain what it is like to be a juror...

For sometime I have thought about writing this entry. It is a very personal diary about how someone who is called to be a citizen must resp...

A lot has happened in the last year, much of it not particularly positive. It is now time to once again hit the keyboard and write. Writing...

In my last post back in December, I talked about having gained a lot of weight and wanting to embark on a self improvement and weight loss p...

It seems as if when I am not posting, it is because I am down about things. That has now passed and it is time to get back to posting again...

Over the years, I have slowly come to realize that salvation is not something someone else can give you. Salvation has nothing to do with r...

Chiggers... Until you have had them, you have no idea how miserable their bites can be. Almost three weeks after first getting them, they s...

I have been blonde most of my life, natural as a child and chemical in my adult life. My mother had very pretty light reddish brown hair, b...

When I decided to write this entry, the original title was going to be "The Roots of Evil." But then I decided against that title...

When I started to write this entry, I instantly thought about Cyndi Lauper's megahit album of 1983, She's So Unusual. I cannot beli...

For a long time I have been asking myself if it is really possible to have an honest friendship on the internet. At one time, I even posed ...

This past Friday night, my husband and I went to our favorite Mexican restaurant, El Ranchero, for dinner. We love this restaurant because ...

This entry is a continuation of an earlier entry describing my trip from Tallahassee, Florida to Brevard, North Carolina in early April. Fr...

Spring is beautiful here in North Carolina. We have a large cherry tree in the back yard and it is just gorgeous in the spring when it is c...