Day 16: Let’s make Soup Beans!
IT'S ONLY A little bit of a joke when I say if I'm ever on death row, for my last meal I'll be requesting a big hearty bowl of soup beans. And cornbread. Yes, cornbread, please! This is real mountain food—the ultimate comfort food—and as soon as the weather turned...
30 Days of Joy! v.2025
MY HEART'S BEEN pulling toward another 30 Days of Joy, a holiday series during which I set the intention to look for, and to acknowledge, moments big and small that center me, that fill me, that remind me life is a gift meant to be enjoyed and savored. It's a practice...
(C)here’s to the unexpected!
EARLIER THIS WEEK I made a call to a friend for whom I had a question. Our business finished, we chatted a bit about this and that when she said, "Guess what I have here in front of me." I could not imagine. "A paper tacked up at my desk," she said, "that reminds me:...
Dreaming Big and Wild
EVEN THOUGH I'VE LIVED in the flatlands of South Carolina since college—a mind-boggling span of some 40+ years—I am a mountain girl. In fact, when Tim and I married in 2002, he made a sweet wedding promise to someday get me back to the landscape I love best. That...
The Women Who Came Before
Note from Cathy: Tomorrow is publication day for my debut novel, That Which Binds Us. It's thrilling and scary and there are a hundred thousand things yet to be done, so it's not surprising that I woke up really early this morning with an intention to Get Right To It....
In times like these.
I'M SITTING at the moment at our pretty mountain getaway in Western North Carolina, and it's the first time I've been back since the devastation of Hurricane Helene. You may remember the backstory: Tim and I had come for a regular visit late in September, and because...
My Top Ten Reads of 2024
LAST YEAR WAS A GOOD reading year for me all in all, even if my "official" volume was down. As you no doubt know if you're a regular here at The Daily Grace, in April I was overjoyed to receive a publishing offer for my own debut, and once the contract was signed it...
Hi. I’m Cathy.
This is a blog about writing, creative living, and grace in the everyday. It’s my hope this little spot on the internet will be for you a place of quiet and reflection, a source for inspiration, and a reminder there’s beauty all around—we simply need to keep our hearts open to see it. Thank you for being here with me.