About

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. –Winston Churchill

Languages used

• American English

Education

• University of Louisville
• Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• University of Mississippi
• Hattiesburg High School

Favorite saying

• "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, and accepting hardships as the pathway to peace. Excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Niebuhr. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. –Winston Churchill Feelings aren't right or wrong, they just are. How you act on those feelings is what makes all the difference. - AMI, aka My Mom Sometimes I live life like I am trying to wear my best high heeled shoes to walk down a road filled with mud puddles. I tip toe around, focused on avoiding a speck of mud and forget where I'm going. This country girl knows better. Darn it: remove the shoes; wiggle your toes; walk directly where you need to go. Washing your feet after you arrive is the easy part. - Jackie Warren Tatum (one of my dear lawyer friends) Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. - Derek Walcott"