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Have You Ever Been Good and Lonely?

Have you ever been good and lonely? I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but it happens to mea lotand (bad pun straight ahead), I don’t think I’m alone.

Good and lonely slips in at the strangest times. It hasnothing to do with other people.

I can feel good and lonely in a crowd.

Good and lonely never ever makes me sad, but it does fill me with a tender sweet longing.

I’ve decided that good and lonely is my heart reaching for home. The next one. The real one. The eternal one. But now they aspire to...

(VIDEO) Happy Fourth of July from All Things Southern

Hey y’all! A quick note about today’s ATS LIVE! It won’t exactly be live. I’ve got the baby beau czars and the bellerinaczars here– four in all– and I’m in grandkid heaven. (More pics than anyone will probably care to see will be posting to my Facebook wall later.) However, I didn’t forget about y’all. Today’s radio show on TALK 540, streaming here from 5-6 PM CST, is a nice mix of the storytelling frommy audio book, Lessons Learned on Bull RunRoad, andpatriotic tunes. I’ll podcast if afterw...

MaryBeth Whalen visits ATS LIVE today with “The Guest Book”

Hey y’all! It’s Monday and I’m running around like a chicken with her head cut off trying to lay radio tracks here and prepare for this evening’s talk show in Monroe. That’s ATS LIVE in the event you haven’t heard — and if you haven’t heard, today would be a perfect time to join us! We’ll be on the porch swing just a’swanging at 5:06 CST. The show airs locally on TALK540 and streams live for my Internet friends here.

There will be storytelling.

There will be music.

There will be cooking.

There wi...

Reversing the Travesty, Step One (new post)

I’m sitting on the back porch thinking over the morning’s events and contemplating the beautiful, mysterious ways of God. Care to join me for a story?

Little more than a week ago, I posted a blog thought called Travesty. In it, I expressed a heartfelt desire to begin correcting what I saw as a great wrong. It might help if you read that post before you continue.

This morning, God gave me the incredible gift of being able to pray with someone toembrace the forgiveness and grace that is hers thro...

Authors & Aspiring Writers need to see this Mind Mapping Memo from the Belle of All Things Southern

Happy Friday, folks! I love to bring y’all things that I find helpful and right now, I’m intrigued with the concept of Mind Mapping. Granted, I’m coming to the table late, way late I’m sure, but I’m here! Special thanks to LucilleZimmerman at WordServeWatercooler for the post that brought it to my attention.

Note: You don’t have tobe a writer to use this, I see great potential here for all sorts of creativity, but any writer or aspiring writer needs to see it. I’ve hyperlinked the pic here too...

Movie Producer Rodney Ray from R-Squared Productions to visit ATS LIVE!

Hey y’all! Top of the Monday to everybody. I’m about to get crazy busy laying down some radio tracks to get out to the ATS affiliates. But first,I wanted to give y’all a heads-up about this afternoon’s talk show on ATS LIVE. Movie producerRodney Ray,from R-Squared Productionswill be with me in the studio today. Rodney is the kind offull steam ahead go-getter that I loveintroducing y’allto– he is following his dream and impacting lives at the same time.

Rodney is the head and the heart of R-Squ...

What a Travesty

Travesty. I probably haven’t used that word a handful of times in my whole life butitsprang to my mind yesterday during my early morning devotions…

I was thinking of howI’ve often heardpeople tell new believers that they might not always feel so “high” on Christ (for lack or a better word) as the day when they first believed, but they should be careful toremember “this day” if theyshould begin to doubttheir new faith.I’m certain they meant well, but just typing those words makes me sad. The wo...

Do Not Read Your Book Reviews!

Dear *Cat,

I did it again. I didn’t mean to, I promise. I had no intention of reading reviews last Saturday! It’s just that I got an email invite to be someone’s friend on thiscertain book site and when I clicked “sure thing”, or something like that, I was taken to the site itself, which iswhere I happened to see mybook in a little sidebar along with the number of reviews it had garnered… And well, Cat, I could see the first few words of one review right before the “read more” link and it was...

Is that a Hole in my Head?

I have scant time forthis, but since my author friend Nicole Seitzthought I should share this story, here we go. Note:there’ll be even more rambling than usualbecause there’ll be zero to none editing. We good? Cool.

Once upon a time, (which was actually just last week), I had a hole in myhead. I do not mean an actual hole. That’s just the phrase that kept coming out every time I talked about how it felt to be missing a tooth on the top FRONT VERY VISIBLE SIDE of my mouth. Backstory? Oh, okay.

I...

NYT’s Bestselling Author Eric Blehm on ATSLIVE today

Hey y’all– running around Monroe doing errands and realized I hadn’t blogged the show. I hope you’re making plans to join me on air. I’m excited about my guest today– Eric Blehm, author of Fearless! This is an awesome story of a courageous American named Adam Brown. You won’t want to miss this!

To register in the drawing for the book, comment here or on my Facebook wall and ask for it! Remember the show airs locally on TALK548 and streams live at HTTP://WWW.TALK540.COM/STREAM/LIVE-ST... —...