My First Without Her

I turned fifty last week, a milestone for most women, as is any decade birthday, and I’ve basically been celebrating all month long.  But I crashed last Friday when my thoughts turned to the fact that this was the first birthday I had without my mother.  I have...

Project Fifty: Kay

When you’ve known someone since fourth grade, as I have Kay Whaley, there’s a tendency to lock them in at that age.  I remember 8-year old Kay; the girl with the waist-long hair, the cheerleader with the barely-scuffed saddle oxfords, the most stylish...

Project Fifty: Lori

Lori Goodrich.  When I close my eyes and think about this name and the person attached to it, I smile and perhaps laugh out loud a little.  Even bigger than her beauty, is her sense of humor and self-deprecation.  She was always willing to put herself out there for...

Project Fifty

Introduction and Thanks. Saturday, January 9, 2016 was a magical day for me.  Ten women with a common thread came back together to celebrate the year each of us turns 50.  We all graduated from Henry County High School in McDonough, Georgia, in 1984.  Any decade is a...

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