City Girl

One of the responsibilities of the President of the Friends of the Library (FOL) is to submit a Year in Review report to commissioners’ court. […]

Three weeks ago, this column was about the effects of a week of ice and snow, but this one is about life after Snowpocalypse 2021. After all the snow and ice melted, there was a lot of landscape sadness to be seen. […]

Computer work has been interesting at the Brendle house for the last week since we’ve been without wifi. We had what we thought was an unlimited plan from a major carrier through a third party provider called Nomad. […]

On September 7, 2017, Heather Rollins created a Facebook group called Emory Alerts. […]

The Snowpocalypse of 2021 has been a challenge to all of us – some more than others. While many report spending days without heat and water, David and I experienced only two days of rolling blackouts, and we had no water outages. […]

Many opportunities to be grateful have presented themselves this week – a home that keeps us comfortable even in the worst weather, a full refrigerator and pantry so we don’t have to make a run to the store, and internet service so we can keep in touch when church is canceled, to name a few. […]

What is one of the first things we say to our grandchildren when we see them? I have no scientific proof to back this up, but it’s probably something like “Come give Grandma a hug!” And more than likely, the kids come running. […]

Those were some of the first words Robert Worley said to me after I walked into his office and introduced myself. Worley is the new Director of the Emory Development Corp., and I was there to interview him for the article you can read on the front page of this edition of the Leader. […]

No, I didn’t go to my local recruiter and sign up. Military enlistments are down, but I don’t think they’re desperate enough to accept a mature woman like me. I did, however, do something almost as controversial, and one gentleman who shared my experience said it was like enlisting in the Army. […]

In the past nine years, I’ve posted over a thousand posts on my blog. I began blogging because my son advised me that I needed to build up a following of readers in order to attract a publisher for my first book. […]