It Finally Happened

and ironically, this time (to my knowledge) no doctors predicted it.
I just found out that my cousin, Nick Waters, died this morning. Y’all may know him from Christmas several years ago, when the docs thought he didn’t have long to live then. You see, that Christmas he wanted a Christmas Miracle – he wanted to [...]

It Wasn’t My Choice, OK????

Those are quite possibly the words that changed my life forever.
I’ve been railing against a group I see as legalists and Pharisees for a couple of days now, and I figured it is time I admit a dirty little secret:
I used to be one.
Much like Saul, I was trained in “church” by some of the [...]

'VeritasThorn': The Explanation

I’ve recently changed my ID on twitter from ’swgalibertarian’ to ‘veritasthorn’, and several people have asked me why.
It is essentially a continuation of a change I made several months ago on Peach Pundit of going away from having the word ‘libertarian’ in my ID, just to make it absolutely clear that even though I am [...]

'A Tale of Two Hurricanes': The Backstory

About 8 days ago, I wrote a piece for SWGAPolitics.com I called ‘A Tale of Two Hurricanes‘.
As I suspected it would, it has drawn a bit of criticism, including most recently from a friend.
So let me explain a bit of my internal thinking and experiences regarding the matter.
First, one of the the traits about myself [...]

The Importance of the Genesis

I’ve been thinking about some things recently, the subject of a blog post that I’ll be writing tonight. But those things got me thinking in another direction, namely how important an entity’s beginnings truly are.
I like reading biographies because you begin to get an idea of how these people came to do everything they did [...]

The Mothers In My Life

I’ve learned a lot from the mothers in my life, particularly my own mother, Wanda Sexton. But also both of my grandmothers, June Sexton and the late Sara Cooper, and even my aunt Doris Leathers, who always treated me, my brothers, and several of our cousins as the kids she never had. Recently, I’ve even learned a lesson or two from my mother in law, Vicky Hubbs.