Food Prep
Don’t Go Getting Above Your Raisin’
The Home Front Everyone needs friends as we travel life’s road. We need friends to connect with, to share with, and to look to during the blessings, trials, and tribulations of life. We need someone to celebrate the good news and someone to comfort us as we mourn the bad. And even when good things …
Sometimes Your Ringtone Speaks Louder than Words
The Home Front Being a retired high school teacher, I have quite a few memories that occasionally come to mind and bring out a chuckle. One such memory that bubbled to the surface recently was when I passed a large truck from a well-known company. This company is a successful business that employs well over …
The FBI National Academy & a Backwoods Deputy Sheriff from Alabama
The Home Front David and I married young, had a family, and happily raised our family and managed careers. While I was home raising the children, David was pursuing his career in law enforcement. As a deputy sheriff in Blount County, David worked his way up the ladder from deputy sheriff to supervisor to investigator …
Love Blossoms on the Farm
The Home Front David and I both grew up on family farms. On the Standridge farm, David’s family had row crops and raised feeder pigs. On the Swann farm, my family had cattle and grew a large vegetable garden every year. So, along with delicious farm-fresh vegetables and beef in the freezer, we Swann children …
