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Sometimes I forget I’m an adult. I spend most of my day surrounded by teenagers and invest myself in their lives, dreams, goals, and problems. This weekend I watched my best friend get married t…

I got to witness the best thing on Sunday morning. Charlie got to be the acolyte at First United Methodist Church for the first time. This has been a long time coming and ever since he was in kinderga…

Labels matter. Whether it be on a shirt, on a drink, or on a person those labels determine what you think about that particular object. I’ve been rather discouraged lately seeing how many differ…

When we hit our teen years, we go through a lot of things. We’re learning about who we are and we’re trying to fit in. We want to be accepted by our peers, and we’re figuring out what we’re good at in…

Football season is upon us! Bring on the cheerleaders, the Friday night lights, the grass stains, and the sweat. People in Mississippi attend football games as loyally as they attend Sunday morning ch…

I have curly hair. When I was a baby my hair sat in pretty black ringlets all over my head, often held out of my face with a large bow. However, because my mother lacked the thick curly hair…

I write about my daughter Berit often but there is another little one in my life that is just as important. 
Many of you know I was the nanny to a little boy named Charlie during my senior year o…

Berit may look like her daddy but she does so many things that I do from sleeping the same to poking her lip out when she’s sad, a classic baby Courtney trademark. When I first became pregnant I…

I am scared of many things but for some reason storms aren’t one of those things.…

Cite your sources and show me receipts are phrases Brett Warren and I use often. With “fake news” and “alternative facts” running amuck all over the Internet, it’s easy t…