Okay, I’ll admit it. I kinda love Hallmark Christmas Movies, despite all the geezer life insurance commercials. The movies tend to be quite predictable and often a little sappy. Okay, a lot sappy. There will be snow, Santa Claus always makes an appearance, and after an hour and fifty-two minutes….someone’s getting a kiss. Several friends […]
Bitsy Hamilton came by my office this past week with a rather unusual request. She wanted my advice on an obituary. Bitsy is the editor of the society page for the Village Voice, a position she has proudly held since the Reagan Administration. A likeable but somewhat proper old spinster, for decades she has meticulously […]
It’s been an interesting week in Watervalley… one with a rather curious ending. Christine has been attending several bridal shows in Nashville and candidly, she’s been rather secretive about the whole wedding plans. All I can say is, Boom! I couldn’t be happier. Early on I offered a few opinions about the big day. Dumb […]
It’s been and interesting week of patients in Watervalley. Oni Kinser came in Monday with a black eye. Florence, his wife of twenty-plus years had given it to him, accidentally. It seems that while the two of them were in the garden, Florence, who is rather wide in the hips, was bent over picking green […]
Margie Reynolds came by Monday morning requesting to see me in my office. Margie is forty-two and gave birth to her second child, Cybil Ann this last December. Given that she and her husband Larry’s oldest child, Martha Lynn, graduated Vanderbilt in April, Cybil Ann was the definition of a bonus baby. Margie was […]
The week before Easter, in a moment of weakness and Christian charity, Lida Wilkins invited her niece, Jasmine and her husband, Turk, to join her for the Easter worship service at First Presbyterian Church of Watervalley. By the time Easter Sunday was over, Lida felt confident that Jasmine and Turk had well-defended […]
The fourth book in the Watervalley Book series! After a turbulent eighteen months, Luke Bradford is finally at peace with his new life as the sole physician in rural Watervalley. [...]
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“The Splendor of Ordinary Days” Is #1 Best Seller
The Splendor of Ordinary Days makes it to #1 on The Tennessean Best Seller List! On October 18th, the BookMan BookWoman bookstore in Hillsboro Village hosted a standing-room only book signing and author event to celebrate the latest novel in the Watervalley Books series, and that week the The Splendor of Ordinary Days rose to #4 on the […]
Kindle Fire HD 6 Giveaway Complete
Congratulations to Amanda Morris for winning the The Splendor of Ordinary Days Kindle Fire HD 6 Giveaway! With more than 1800 entries, Amanda was randomly selected and will receive a Kindle Fire HD 6 and signed copies of all three novels in the Watervalley Series. Special thanks to everyone who participated in the contest and the blog […]
A Cat Tale (The latest news from Watervalley.)
It should be noted that in ancient Egypt, cats were worshiped as kings and queens. Apparently, they haven’t forgotten this.
Facts and Fiction: (I don’t just make this stuff up.)
In my late teens I remember driving a country road out of Water Valley, Tennessee (the real one) up to Franklin, Tennessee in the next county. For a Middle Tennessee backroad, it bordered on bizarre. Around here we have rolling hills and ridges. Old backroads are rambling affairs; typically following the point of least resistance […]
