Author: MJ

Whew! Valentine’s Day is over! I may be going out on a limb here, but is anyone else glad about that? I mean, I love…

Today is a day to be remembered. It is the day during which our whole country takes time to pause and (hopefully) reflect on the…

Everyone knows it. The cutest house in the neighborhood. The perfectly manicured lawn, the wide front porch, the red brick, the freshly painted white woodwork,…

“When you’re weak, I’ll be strongWhen you let go, I’ll hold onWhen you need to cry, I swearThat I’ll be there to dry your eyesWhen…

I met my husband in a bar. There, I said it. No finesse, no hiding it, no trying to make it sound more romantic than…

Just say no…to hugs! Wait, what?! Hugs? Surely I meant to type drugs instead of hugs. After all, Just Say No is the 80’s catch…

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.” It’s one of the iconic phrases from the now classic movie, Shawshank Redemption. It is advice shared between…

I come from a sentimental family. We all have family names. We have family traditions that go back several generations. We still get and give…

…Don’t you do what your big sister done. For anyone who grew up listening to your mom and grandma blast Elvis Presley like I did,…

If you have children (or spend any time around them at all), when you read the title of this post, you immediately started singing- whether…