I grew up in Tucker, Georgia, near Stone Mountain State Park. I climbed that granite mountain countless times in the first 22 years of my life (and not since!). I used real pies for my team's "pie graphs" in my senior college capstone business class—Chocolate Chess Pie and Buttermilk Pie! We won the simulation and got an A in the course—all due to the incredible smarts of my team mates, … [Read more...]

Happy New Year, friends! I'll happily admit that I was grateful to kiss 2016 goodbye! It was a rough year in many ways. And yet nestled within those rough patches were also precious times of blessing. Which is so like our Heavenly Father to give us those encouragements, those glimpses of Himself. During Christmas our family managed to carve out time to catch a couple of movies and play some … [Read more...]

Joe and I are proud parents! This past weekend our son Kurt graduated with his MBA from Belmont University—where my husband is Associate Dean of the Massey School of Business, and where both of our children did their undergrad, and where the Belmont Mansion is located...we really are a Belmont family! My dad, who's the last of Joe's and my parents still with us on earth, came from Atlanta with … [Read more...]