“And take back some of the pride that I’ve lost ‘Cause you can’t always keep your feet on the ground I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down”

Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I’ll start by taking a step at a time And stop throwing my blessings away I’ll get myself up and I’ll brush myself off.

Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.

When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner.

Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.

My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It’s big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away… Literally.