Per our usual habit, Cousin Cate and I were talking about A Boy In Her Life on the phone earlier this evening when I, thinking the conversation was over, started to say goodbye.  Her reply? “HOLD UP!  You’re not getting off this phone until you have helped me analyze this situation from every possible angle!” [...]

So, for the last few weeks, the same topic has been coming up in conversations with various single friends of mine.  And each time we’re talking about it, I say “Hey, I’m going to ask the bloggy people about this!” But then I get too busy confessing my bad church-going habits or something equally ridiculous [...]

“Later doesn’t always mean last.” It’s All For Him, Haley Dykes

Let’s just say there were a whole lot of very happy elementary school girls at my Starlite program today once they saw that I brought two “boys” along for the afternoon’s event. Photo courtesy of our high school intern, Lauren. Flip flops stolen from courtesy of Cousin Cate’s closet.  Ooops.

I know Valentine’s Day is long gone, but I’ve been wanting to tell you more about our trip to the widows’ home during our retreat with my college girls a few weeks ago. So, throw on something red and grab some conversation hearts ’cause we’re going to pretend like this post isn’t over a month [...]

While getting ready today, I made the executive decision that I’m going back to wearing ribbons in my hair whenever I can get away with it.  One of my college girls, Lizy, wears her ribbons tied around the front of her hair, almost like a headband but with the tied end tucked underneath.  And now?  [...]

While I was out in the country today running an errand, I came across a field of horses just enjoying an afternoon snack of grass.  I don’t know what came over me, but I sure enough parked my car in the road (IN THE ROAD, Y’ALL!), walked right over to that pasture and began attempting [...]

Three scenes, three different girls, all in the same 24 hours, starting from the close of the day. Because some stories end at their beginning. – — – Laying in bed, almost asleep when the call comes in at nine minutes ’til midnight. I leave immediately, still in my pink and black pajamas. She’s waiting [...]

A couple of weeks ago, when I was the only one at the office guarding the goods whilst a few of the girls went to get a truck for some bigger things we need to move out, I just happened to grab a box of journals from one of our middle school programs and started [...]