The Barefoot Heart

    April 5, 1947 Mother and Daddy (Yea Yea and Car Car to the Grands and Great Grands) got married in the Fayette County GA jail. yes, really. Granddaddy

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/april-5-through-the-family-calendar/

The post about my Heart Alert brought many questions on Facebook and behind the scenes – something that delights me because this is an important conversation about a serious women’s

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/time-for-q-and-a/

When The Engineer and I first married, I laid down a rule: last one out of bed made the bed up. One year ago today was the first day my

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/on-the-first-anniversary-of-my-heart-alert/

“I don’t like to go to showers,” I (the introvert who, though I may enjoy them, am exhausted by parties and gatherings) told this man I’d known for 64 days

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/happy-50th-engagement-anniversary-to-us/

Today began with a visit to Lowcountry Whimsy, a delightful gift shop filled with . . . (Photo: Two smiling women – one wearing pink, the other wearing turquoise and

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/babymoon-day-2/

Come February 2023, I’ll be Bubbles (my grandmother name) to a third Sprite! I’m calling her Junior for now ‘cause she’ll be named after me, though my daughter doesn’t plan

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/babymoon-day-1/

To say my life is a little chaotic right now is to become the poster child for understatement. I haven’t picked up cloth and thread in about a year and

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/straight-lines-to-the-rescue/

If you’re already a part of The 70273 Project Tribe, thank you. If you’re just finding out about us, I hope you’ll poke around a bit  learn a little more, then join

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/happy-birthday-to-the-70273-project/

  To hear Jeanne read this post (4 minutes 12 seconds)t:   A full-ride scholarship to The Piano Conservatory . . . and a father who refused to let her return

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/so-glad-i-got-to-know-her/

In August 2018, I began keeping a journal I call The Book of Astonishments: Daily Goodness, Grins, and Gratitudes. It was a small blank journal, one that fit nicely inside

https://www.thebarefootheart.com/my-book-of-astonishments-daily-goodness-grins-and-gratitudes/