by Jemelene | May 9, 2019 | Mama Jem, My Posts at The Glorious Table, Pastor Jem
At the age of twenty-seven, I stood in a church on Mother’s Day and wept. I’d been diagnosed with a condition that made it difficult to bear children, and being a mother had been the dream of my life. Even in elementary school, my career goals always revolved around...
by Jemelene | Dec 27, 2018 | Mama Jem, My Posts at The Glorious Table
I remember crawling under the Christmas tree as a small child, before the packages were in place. Those first few years we didn’t have lights on the tree, we had a spotlight under the plate glass window shining on the carefully placed ornaments. I remember the warmth...
by Jemelene | Sep 30, 2018 | Mama Jem, My News Review Columns
Author’s Note: On October 1, 2015 our town was shattered by the unthinkable. A shooter entered a classroom on our small community college campus and killed nine of our own as well as wounding nine others. My response that next day was a piece that reflected my...
by Jemelene | May 17, 2018 | Archived Jem, Mama Jem, My News Review Columns
It was a Saturday and I was expecting guests the next afternoon to celebrate my 6-week old baby. I was staring at a tray of cake crumbs stuck together with blobs of icing. They were supposed to be Petit fours. I had followed Martha Stewart’s step-by-step...
by Jemelene | May 11, 2015 | Mama Jem, Pastor Jem
It’s natural to be want to be right. There is something about walking out life on a platform where your word and thoughts are set out for the world to read. Ideas come from research or personal experience, either way, that’s what this writing thing is...
by Jemelene | Mar 6, 2015 | Archived Jem, Mama Jem, My News Review Columns
I don’t know any parent who doesn’t at some level want to raise their children to be quality individuals. We want them to be smart, funny and loved. More than anything I hope you want them to be kind. But kindness isn’t something you can’t...
