The House That Built Me

I love Miranda Lambert’s song “The House That Built Me”.   It pierced right through my heart the first time I heard it.  I'm guessing it must have touched so many others, too, because it was named the Country Music Awards Song of the Year a few months ago. I first heard the song about a year after I made a trip back home with my family in 2009.  I’ve lived in Florida for so long that I feel like I have no connection to my hometown of Cleveland, Mississippi.  The older I get, the more I think about how blessed I was as a child.  
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Making Time For Childhood Games

One of the proudest moment in my life can be summed up in two words. Go Fish! It was just one of the many games I taught my 8-year-old son to play one night after I persuaded him to put down his Nintendo DS for two seconds.