Highlighting Texas Strong Women and Texas history
For a few seconds, my dead grandmother was right there next to me shopping for plants. I was walking through the garden center of H-E-B Plus on a particularly muggy August afternoon. I was leisurely picking out plants and loading them onto my cart, despite the heat. My dead grandmother was right there next to…
Our daughters truly have the luck of the Irish in their blood. On Saint Patrick’s Day, my husband and I celebrate the birthdays of two of our ancestors. We also celebrate our Irish roots on both sides of our family with traditional Irish food and drink. Celebrating our family’s Irish roots on Saint Patrick’s Day…
I was honored to deliver the eulogy at my maternal grandmother, Myrle Dee Grubbs Benton‘s funeral. In her eulogy, I talked about nine important things my late grandmother taught me. 9 Important Things My Late Grandmother Taught Me My grandmother was a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, and a friend. But, most of…
I never thought I’d find myself in liturgy. I was raised in the Church of Christ in Texas in the 1990s. My father was raised Episcopalian in Texas in the 1960s, only because there happened to be an Episcopal church across the street from his house. My father’s father was raised Swiss Mennonite in Kansas…
A couple of years ago, our lawnmower broke just as the neighborhood deer began to foal. Over the next couple of weeks, we found four beautiful, tiny fawns hidden in the tall grass of our Texas hill country front yard. Initially, we were shocked to discover newborn babies seemingly abandoned, but we soon learned that…
