Singles Ad Leads to Enduring Love? At least that’s what hopeful lovers expected. Decades before Internet dating sites, speed dating and dating apps became the norm for people to meet prospective partners, people found a unique way to meet members of the opposite sex. They placed a singles ad in glossy magazines. They… Continue reading Singles Ad Leads to Enduring Love
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Inspiring Quotes Are Comic Stories
Do you like inspiring quotes? How about comics? Through the creative genius of Gavin Aung Than, inspirational quotes and comics have become funny and heartwarming comic stories. In 2012, Than, who became a full-time freelance cartoonist in 2011, launched Zen Pencils, a popular blog where he posts comic stories that he adapts from inspirational quotes. He has… Continue reading Inspiring Quotes Are Comic Stories
Memories Make a Home
By Sharen McArthur, Editor Making memories in our new home… In the early morning hours of the days before we moved to our current home, I lay awake and listened to the sounds my house made. Some sounds I could never place; others told me sweet stories. I heard a creak in the… Continue reading Memories Make a Home
Share Your Stories: The Idea of a Cottage
BY SHAREN MCARTHUR, EDITOR How did the idea of a cottage inspire our website? IDEAS COME FROM different places: conversations, things we read, random thoughts, brainstorming and connections we make. The idea for our website’s name came from a cottage that was for rent behind an old two-story, white-framed house that had once been home to… Continue reading Share Your Stories: The Idea of a Cottage
Path
BY JANE MARSTON, ATHENS, GEORGIA IN AUGUST OF 1988, I found myself planning a return move to Athens, Georgia, having taught for one year at Mercer University in Macon. On the eve of vacating the apartment I’d been renting, I hoped against hope I’d have no trouble transporting my cat, a five-year-old gray tabby. Flash—so… Continue reading Path
The Script of My Life
BY SHAREN MCARTHUR, EDITOR THE UNEXPLAINED, THE SUDDEN, THE UNEXPECTED – these are the things that fill the soul, making thick, delicious ruminations. One such incident happened on a sunny Saturday morning, not to me, but to my husband and daughters. Driving down the road about a mile from our house in an older section… Continue reading The Script of My Life
an unusual companion on my life journey
By Sharen McArthur, editor NESTLED AMONG pennies, dimes, and quarters in my wallet is a cool, smooth rock. An unusual companion on my life journey, it has lived in my wallet since I was a teenager, a tenant that I cannot evict. Quiet and unassuming, it is a part of my life that is nonsensical… Continue reading an unusual companion on my life journey