Denise Arthur – Forever a Louisiana Lady and Legend May the goodness and richness of her life reside in the deepest part of our hearts forever If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you …
The Path to Greatness
Written by Teri Netterville In my personal library, I have shelves full of books about the “Greats” among us: Great athletes, great coaches, great business leaders, world leaders and great every day, ordinary people who defied the odds and became something rather extraordinary in their …
Faith is a Powerful Tool
If 2020 has taught us anything, it has taught us that life is fragile; uncertainty is for certain; humans are very complex beings and ultimately, we all need each other for this sovereign world of ours to survive and thrive. It’s true that we, as …
My Broken Flower Pot Life Lesson
A couple of weeks after we received our one-year-old chocolate lab, Cowboy, he knocked over one of my large, heavy flower pots out back by the pool. This big pot that I bought years ago, was one of two freestanding flower pots that I had …
Keeping it Real: Tangible Memories
Have you ever been rummaging through old drawers or found yourself digging through cluttered closets looking for something when suddenly, your eyes land on an old keepsake that you had totally forgotten about? Once you spot it, you quickly grab it and spend the next …
Keeping it Real: Trust the Journey
When a city girl marries a country boy, it can sometimes feel like you are living right smack dab in the middle of a sitcom or a Saturday Night Live skit. It’s a collision course of two worlds that can be a beautiful, wonderful and …
A New Generation: FAITH over Fear
When you think back to your childhood days, does it make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? For most of us, our childhood memories include fun, stress-free times and happy experiences that usually involved our family, our friends, school events and church functions. Most of …
Keeping it Real with Teri Netterville: A Fresh Start
The beginning of each new school year was always one of my favorite times when I was a little girl. The excitement of seeing all of my friends again after not seeing them for a whole summer. The excitement of finding out who my new …
Summertime: Make it Count
I saw a quote the other day that said, “Remember, you only have 18 summers with your kids and this is one of them, so make it count.” I’ve been through 20 summers with at least one, then two, and finally three children by my …
Your Voice Matters
Keeping it Real with Teri Netterville About a month ago, and out of the blue, my sister Kimberly sent this text to me: Hey T, I’ve had this subject matter on my heart to send to you for some reason. I don’t know why other than …
Keeping it Real with Teri Netterville: Catching Dreams
Shortly before our father passed away, my sister Kimberly asked him a question that we all assumed we knew the answer to. We didn’t. His answer not only surprised me, it actually altered the way I looked at dreams forever. She asked, “Dad? Was it …
Everyone Has A Story
Keeping It Real With Teri Netterville “Everybody has a story, guys. Remember that. Everybody.” Dad would remind us of this truth many times throughout our childhood. While in the check-out lane at the grocery store, I noticed that the grocery clerk had a poor attitude. I …
Hope, Humor and Humility During the Holidays
“Hope has the ability to see the invisible, to feel the intangible and achieve the impossible.” “Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon – Laughter.” Mark Twain The year was 1983. It was Christmastime: My father’s very favorite time of the year. A few months …
Keeping it Real with Teri Netterville: Dream Catcher
Many people might wonder why we chose “Dream Catcher” for the title of our father’s book. Well, in answering that question, allow me to take you back to a life-changing day 11 years ago when our father had only a week of life left on …
Keeping it Real with Terri Netterville: The Butterfly Effect
If we walked through life fully understanding the magnitude of our presence in the lives of every soul who happened along our path, would we live and love a little differently? Would we open our hearts, our minds and even our homes a little more …
Keeping it Real with Teri Netterville: The Sisterhood of “The Moms of Summer”
Baseball players are typically known as “The Boys of Summer.” Therefore, I guess you can call us baseball moms “The Moms of Summer.” After all, we are the dry-fit wearing, frog-tog toting, Florida water buying, baseball bling-wearing moms who have enormous experience and expertise in …
A Good Southern Woman
Winston Churchill once said, “The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated southern woman.” For us southern women, however, the most beautiful voice in the world is the voice of our daughters, once they discover it and then find the courage …
Screenagers
My daughter Summer and three of her friends hopped in my car after a weekend of soccer down south and within 15 minutes, the chattering about the happenings of the weekend had ceased and in its place was a brand of silence familiar to parents …
It’s a Juanderful Life!
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives, and when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” ~ The angel, Clarence, speaking to George Bailey in the Christmas classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” This annual Christmas story airs every …
Sibling Bonds…and the ties that bind them
“There may be no relationship that affects us more profoundly; that is closer, finer, harder, sweeter, happier, sadder, more filled with joy…or fraught with woe…than the relationships we have with our brothers and sisters.” ~Jeff Kluger I will never forget the day that my husband, …
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