“This baby will not survive, and you aren’t going to live through this one either,” the doctor informed Carrie Marrs. It was 1952 and she was pregnant with her third child. In her first pregnancy, she had developed toxemia which led to the death of her first born, a daughter. After a successful, uneventful birth … Continue reading Dana Carrozza: An Everyday Extraordinary Woman
Category: Love and Family
No Matter What
Every night, when my children were very young, I would come into their rooms to tuck them in and hear their prayers. Just before leaving their bedside to turn off their lights, I would lean down and say: No Matter Where You Go No Matter What You Do Keep it in Your Pocket That Your … Continue reading No Matter What
The Ditch
In the latter part of the 1970s, I lived with my family in a little blue house on North Tennessee Blvd in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. My parents were in their twenties, my older sister was a mere 1236 days older than me, and a Pinto wagon fancied up with wood paneling sat in the driveway. Yellow … Continue reading The Ditch
Unafraid to Fail
There are old home movies of me as a toddler running into a wall. I would stand up and do it again, and again. This has been a long running joke in my family. Recently, while visiting my sister and her precious family, she shared that her youngest son's pediatrician made an odd statement at … Continue reading Unafraid to Fail
My Daughters and Guns
In recent, separate conversations with my Gen Z daughters, I asked them this question: If you were to have but one political platform you feel very passionate about, what platform would you choose? Both answered: Gun Control. My children have been brought up in a world where school shootings have peppered the news. Added to … Continue reading My Daughters and Guns
Proud of Your Life
I took my girls to see the opening of Justin Baldoni's Five Feet Apart. The terminal teen romance drama, likened to Fault in Our Stars, shares the story of hospitalized teens living with Cystic Fibrosis. Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) are restricted in their romance by the disease that has taken so … Continue reading Proud of Your Life
Unexpected
Just like flowers for no reason or breakfast in bed on a random Tuesday morning, she was an unexpected gift; Unplanned, but showing up at just the perfect time. Parenting a nine- month old, in our second year of marriage, Jonesy and I had made a quick get away to New York City, just the … Continue reading Unexpected
Favor
One of my favorite parts of being the Mom to children I did not give birth to is hearing the phrases, "I see so much of your husband in this one" or "The little one and his big brother really favor." or "Your children favor so much." I usually just smile to strangers, but to … Continue reading Favor
International Women’s Day—2019
It never dawned on me that being a woman was a limitation. I grew up a Southern, Conservative, Christian, Middle Class transplant in Orange, California. My parents said I could be anything I set my mind to, enforced strict educational expectations, and told me I would work, I would go to college and I would … Continue reading International Women’s Day—2019
The Pot
It was one of those days that seem rare anymore. Mols and I had a few hours free, so we decided to stop into TJ Maxx. We had looked through Mol’s sizes and not found anything we just had to have, so we headed back to housewares to take a peek at the random assortment … Continue reading The Pot
Sara Jones Presents.... 