Summer on Main Street

May 16, 2022 at 01:12 pm by cghattas

Warm weather and school holidays remind me of my childhood years at 407 East Main Street. Like many children of that day and the present, both my parents worked outside the ho.... Read More
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A Mother's Legacy

May 04, 2022 at 09:45 am by cghattas

  With Mother’s Day approaching, my thoughts go to my mother. Helen Roberts Brown was born in Wilson County in 1930. She’s been gone from us since January 19.... Read More

Easter Finery

Apr 06, 2022 at 10:00 am by cghattas

Seeing spring dresses during a recent shopping trip reminded me that Easter is near. Growing up the youngest of five on East Main Street, there were two times of the year when.... Read More

Skipping Down East Main

Mar 08, 2022 at 05:52 am by cghattas

Idyllic childhoods are few and far between. I claim mine, not because of wealth, status, or pedigree, but because I was raised by godly parents in an old house on East Main St.... Read More

A Life in Exile: A World Gone Mad

Mar 01, 2022 at 06:23 am by cghattas

I’m going to start with a quote from G. K. Chesterton: The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have b.... Read More

A Life in Exile: Meanwhile…We suffer

Feb 15, 2022 at 06:18 am by cghattas

Fiddler on the Roof was our favorite movie, and Yente, the matchmaker, had one of the best lines as they were all leaving their homes for a life in exile: "Maybe next time, G.... Read More

Pity Party

Feb 09, 2022 at 06:03 am by cghattas

I have a confession to make. I don’t always act my age. In fact, I can be downright childish. It’s pitiful, I know, and I’ve had to confess my sin to the Lor.... Read More
The author and her husband Raouf.

When Grief Catches Up

Jan 24, 2022 at 06:24 am by cghattas

There’s one thing I don’t like about grief. Well, there are a lot of things I don’t like about grief, but this one is close to the top: it’s just so il.... Read More

5 Things to Find at Your Library

Jan 19, 2022 at 06:17 am by cghattas

Thinking your public library is just a place for books? Guess again!  We love it when you come into one of our Rutherford County Library System libraries for books, but.... Read More