Recently I went back home and spent a few days where I was as a child and driving the through the back roads that were evergreen with pastures and twists and turns and I found myself at the old pond that I fished in as a child. T Lane and Sally’s fishpond in fact...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweetlife” | July 2015 | “A Love Story”
Once upon a time in a land called the Carolina’s there lived a little boy named Brian and a little girl named Alisa. They went to school together…played in the school yard together and rode the same school bus home. In elementary school Brian held Alisa’s hand when she cried and missed her mother...
Things to do | Alisa Murray’s Sweetlife column |November 2014
Thanksgiving 2014 Things to do right now….. Order a bunch of clothes and toys Drink Wassail Eat candied apples and sausage balls Eat chewy peppermints Make and Eat chocolate pecan (pronounced Pee-Can) pie Bake lots of cookies especially the peanut butter chocolate ones that’s Brian’s favorite Make a list Play Buble’ Holiday album Place...
Living the Sweet Life…”Finding Home” Houston Award-Winning Columnist Alisa Murray
Living the SweetLife: Finding Home September 2014 If you think back to when you were a child there are special things from that time...
Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life November 2013
We are Family.. My Brother and My Sister and ME! Ok start humming “We are Family” by the Pointer Sisters. I can’t help myself and for only just a moment I am truly sorry! If there was a song to describe Summer 2013 it would be this one and a blast from the past...
National Back to Church Day
I’ll see YOU on September 15th at 10:30 am On a late August weekend in 1987 I packed up all of my most important possessions and moved into a dormitory at St. Mary’s College. It was my decision to leave home early, the effects of which shapes me even today.I was a senior in...
Keeping it in the family
Passing On What Can Not Be Taught I remember Uncle Jim being a real funny guy. He was my mother’s only brother and since my Daddy was an only child subsequently my only uncle. We would meet up every few years because he lived far far away in Texas and the rest of us...
Celebrating Sisters!
Celebrating Sister’s Day The first Sunday in August is Sister’s Day, and I, for one, will be celebrating it. I know the secret marketing gurus behind the scenes have created this “holiday” of sorts in a probable effort to generate income for the card industry, but if you have a sister, you probably would...
The Work of Men
It’s father’s day. This is a time when I think back to the men in my life who reared me, and the gratitude that I feel towards them for having done such a great job. I was fortunate enough to have several wonderful men around me, guiding me and setting the examples of what...
How You Played Your Game!
It’s not winning or losing, but how you played your game! The pro game has changed in the way guys train and the amount of media coverage. I guess I would say in one respect amateur baseball is more pure. Alisa: When you look back over your career, what stands out most in your...
This Mother’s Day Be in the Moment!
Mother’s Know We live. We love. We loose… We loose that is, each other to life. The cycle of it all is something that everyone since time began has tried to explain and has always been the muse of the great artists. Where are we going, what have we done, and why are we...
Look Outside and Tell Me What You See
Protecting Our Number One Asset I can’t remember the last time I was really hungry. Can you? That’s what I had swimming through my mind the other day as I watched the latest reports about the economy. 60 Minutes aired a story a few weeks ago showcasing what has been happening all over our...
Reflections On Marriage
Reflections on the Sanctimonious Institution of Marriage About….no, exactly twenty years ago, Brian and I were in front of approximately 800 people, promised to each other and our families and our Lord to honor and cherish one another until death parted us. I was only twenty and he was barely twenty-one. Thinking back on...
Sisters, We Ain’t Alike and We Like It That Way!
Being Different Makes No Difference School is starting again, and my sister has to explain to her boys why their cousins have to wear those uniforms that are scratchy, buy a bunch of school supplies that are expensive and even leave to go to a school at all. I just roll my eyes. Those...
Focus on 2008
Its January… again. I know, I know already what ya’ll are thinking. Oh boy, time flies and what are the “plans” for this next year. January, like no other month, always pressures me to make promises to myself and others that by September I realize should have never been made in the first place...