by Diane W. Bailey | Sep 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Storm clouds roll in thick, billowy and dark, blowing small branches and leaves across the field of wildflowers where butterflies make their habitat, laying flat the flowers and thicket on which they find their life and breath. One butterfly frail and tattered lays...
by Diane W. Bailey | Sep 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
I walk into the room, and morning light spills soft and glowing across tiled floors and a rug of robin’s egg blue. Pulling back a silky, chocolate comforter and shaking floral sheet, I watch crumbs of food, smuggled into bed after hours, fly through the air like...
by Diane W. Bailey | Sep 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
They are sisters by marriage and not by blood, yet their mannerisms are so similar. Last summer we had trouble telling them apart in photographs and needed to look at their swimsuits to tell who was who. But, raising these beautiful women to be all that God has...
by Diane W. Bailey | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am posting with Deidra Riggs today, and Yes! We are going there! I was in fourth grade when my school was integrated and I saw the concern on the faces of my parents when they talked about the “rezoning”, and “race” of school districts. ...
by Diane W. Bailey | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
It is one of those days when I feel like the Queen of Hearts in Alice In Wonderland. I ready to yell, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” It is 2:45 in the afternoon and I have been working for two days trying to prepare for out of town guests who will be arriving...