by Do South | Sep 1, 2018 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Jessica Sowards images: Jeremiah Sowards and Mikela Sowards”][/title] This morning I woke up to a to-do list that weighs 9,000 pounds. I feel the weight of it resting on my shoulders, and when I think too hard about it, my mind...
by Do South | Aug 1, 2016 | People
[title subtitle=”words and images: Jessica Sowards”][/title] A million years ago, or maybe only thirteen, I sat in a senior high school class with a teacher who taught creative writing. She was challenging, young, and a bit dry in the humor department. She...
by Do South | Apr 1, 2016 | People
[title subtitle=”words and images: Jeremiah and Jessica Sowards”][/title] My youngest son, Benjamin, just turned one. His wrists still have the chubbiness of a baby and the little dimples on his pudgy hands do too. His hair is still wispy fluff. When he...
by Do South | Jan 1, 2015 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Jessica Sowards images: Jeremiah Sowards”][/title] If life is a series of mountaintops and valleys, January has always been a valley month for me. It’s bleak, forlorn, and bitter cold. It is the evictor of December, of Christmas...