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Birthing a New Baby
I feel like I’ve been in this exact same place before. It’s a place where I’m waiting for something important to happen. Everyone seems to be looking at me as if I’m the one who is supposed to make … Continue reading
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Tagged author, Dear Miss Adams, Jennifer Walton Lowry, Karen Estes Lowry, waiting
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Happy Veterans Day
Tomorrow is Veterans Day and I’m sorry to admit that until a few years ago, I hardly ever noticed Veterans Day on the calendar. When you work for companies that don’t recognize the day as a holiday it’s too easy … Continue reading
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Tagged day, Karen Estes Lowry, navy, recruiter, veterans, women in military
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One Really Good 9/11 Memory
One Really Good 9/11 Memory Despite the unspeakable horrors of one of the worst days in American history, I cling to one precious, precious memory of the impact of those attacks. Maybe it was the day after or maybe it … Continue reading
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Tagged 11, 280, 9, Alabama, attack, Birmingham, bombing, eleven, highway, Karen Estes Lowry, New York, nine eleven, September, terror
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A Fuzzy Gray Photo and the Fourth of July
I recently rediscovered a fuzzy gray photograph that has been in a well-worn old family album for as long as I can remember. The brown album cover is broken and the old black and white pictures are no longer … Continue reading
Pound Cake Packing Preacher
In 2009, Oxmoor House Publishers came out with a book called Southern Living Comfort Food. The back cover of the book carried the following quote from Susan Dosier, a former executive editor at Southern Living: “Maybe a pound cake needs … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham Baptist Association, cream cheese pound cake, Karen Estes Lowry, Kate Randall, McElwain Baptist Church, Ocala National Forest, Ocklawaha Bridge Baptist Church, Patsy Arnold, pound cake, pound cake packing preacher, Raymond Estes, Southern Living, Susan Dosier, The Alabama Baptist
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The Today Show got it wrong
This morning the Today Show did a segment on debunking traditional wisdom. They said it’s OK to go out in the winter with wet hair and turkey doesn’t make you sleepy. They also said fireplaces don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Frances Peebles, Karen Estes Lowry, Ocala National Forest, Robert Peebles
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What he was born to do
As adorable as he is, and despite the fact that he does spend a lot of time indoors, Bean is not a parlor dog. He is, in the vernacular of the South, “a huntin’ dog.” Boykin Spaniels were originally bred … Continue reading
Mama Howard’s Thanksgiving
My Great-Grandmother was known to half the county as “Mama Howard.” One year when I was in my twenties we were all having Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ house and my mother called to invite Mama Howard over to eat with … Continue reading
