A roomful of people,

Tickets sold for a fundraising supper;

Singer-song writer crooning in a corner;

Fraternity boys serve drinks and food;

Are we being smug and…

Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Take it and see how you do:

1. Hippens
2. Hunker
3. Hisn
4. Hear tell
5. Hesh up

1. Hippens-diapers. "When you bring little Suzy over day after tomorrow, don't forget her…

This photo is of the William J Miller and Sallie Viola Rogers Miller children taken in 1903.

From Left to right Roy standing , Locke seated, Mamie standing and Lois.

I noticed that the boys all seemed to wear dresses in those days, Locke would have been three. The Miller family lived…

Sometimes you don't just read history - you're in it. And that's what happened Saturday Feb. 6.

It promised to be the biggest event in Western North Carolina in 67 years. The North Shore Road controversy in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was over. Swain County was going to get its $52 million over 10 years -an amount that was calculated as the present value of the road that was flooded in 1943 to create Fontana Lake and Fontana Dam.

It's a long saga…

Looking back it seems so easy; befriend a stranger…change your life. That’s how true change begins you know, when you step outside yourself and reach out to another never once expecting anything in return.

Many of us want a better job, more money, a nicer home. I didn’t want any of that; I wanted peace. Somewhere along my life-path, I had sectioned each day into compartmentalized appointments. Each morning I awoke, gathered the “To-do” list I had written down the night before,…

Record snowfall, second of the season;

Winter world, everything white.

Lines of vehicles stalled in the drifts;

Others like me slip-sliding along.

Terrifying long, long minutes;

Unsure if I will make home safe and sound.

Staring at the blowing snow;

Thinking of…

Heart’s Desire

You are my heart’s desire,

through you I gain my strength.

Your caring and compassion,

help me to live fully each day.

When I see your face,

hold you in…

Sitting in another business meeting,

Daydreaming about things I want to do with you.

Last night I couldn’t kiss you enough,

Cross-eyed crazy in your embrace.

What would it be like to be with you,

From here on out to the end of time?

To wake each morning—look into your eyes,…

I did it - I made the trailer and it wasn't difficult at all. It's all in fun and I had a good time doing it.

:-)

You can see it here if you like... SG TRAILER