• O Happiness, Where Can I Find Thee?

    In my daily search for happiness I often am misled. It is not so much that I look in the wrong places or the wrong…

  • Joy to Make Me Fly

    I always enjoyed a nighttime stroll. Everything seen and heard and touched in daylight became a new experience when illuminated by the glow of the…

  • I Kicked a Guy Who Tried to Steal My Car

    I was sitting in the driver seat of my beloved cherry red car. I love that car. I was checking a text message or something–I…

  • Birthing Pains, Desire, and the Mystery of Fruitful Heartache

    I must preface this article with the admission that I have never birthed a child and therefore am unqualified to speak on the subject. That…

  • Beauty Observed

    It always puzzled me how people could honestly disagree on whether a person or a thing is beautiful. I assumed that an object was either…

  • Beach Days: A Reminiscence

    I dream of sunshiny beach days and the smell of sunscreen lotion when we lined up on the woven mat by the sliding screen door…

  • The Peculiar Effect of Beauty and A Poem

    Have you ever beheld a face so radiant it inspired an overflow of poetic sentiment? I did once and was compelled to jot down this…

  • Introduction

    Why a pine tree? If the rugged little conifer rooted in the rocky red clay of a Carolina mountain could think and express itself in…