Dawn Reed

1 day ago | kentuckytoday.com | Dawn Reed

Kelly* just got her license and was so excited. I asked who had been teaching her to drive. Both of her parents, she replied. Then I asked which was the better driver, her mother or her father. (It’s not a terrible question. The truth’s the truth. And, of course, I wasn’t going to tell them.)Kelly said her mom is a terrible driver and her dad drives really fast. She said they correct her all the time when she is driving but she is doing exactly what she sees them do. My eyes got big as she spoke.

1 week ago | kentuckytoday.com | Dawn Reed

Our dog Dixie was rescued last year and she knows it. It was at the end of summer and to be quite honest she was on the brink of death, close to dying. She had been on the side of a bridge for four days, according to a lady who was trying to feed her. Her hair was matted and overgrown. She had been hit by a car. With temps in the 90s that week, she was a goner if someone didn’t help her. My beloved did. It’s the sweetest thing. Dixie knows she was rescued.

2 weeks ago | kentuckytoday.com | Dawn Reed

One smell of hyacinth moves me. For eons, just a whiff of the beautiful spring flowers brought an immediate smile to my face and stirred my heart with something almost like yearning. It’s hard to describe and may make no sense at all to anyone else. For a long time, I couldn’t understand what it was. Then several years ago, I mentioned it to my mom. She smiled, knowing exactly what it was. My great-grandmother Loftis, who was the first one in our family to love Jesus, had a large flower garden.

3 weeks ago | kentuckytoday.com | Dawn Reed

When my mother-in-law in Alabama moved to a nursing home here in eastern Kentucky, we had to go through her stuff. Her two sons, two stepdaughters, plus some other family members had to decide what went where. We found she was a collector of many things. Three storage sheds were filled to the brim. She had SO many treasures. It’s a difficult task to sort and divide a lifetime of keepsakes. It went well, with each offspring taking turns choosing mementos.

1 month ago | kentuckytoday.com | Dawn Reed

Here in the mountains, we are deeply grateful for volunteers who come to the aid of our flood victims. People from all over the U.S. are temporarily laying down their daily lives to feed, mud out, clean up, tear out, and rebuild for those who were affected by the river flood a few weeks ago. We have Georgia Disaster Relief staying at our church, Mennonites are at a church down the road, Samaritan’s Purse is in Pikeville, and Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief is working out of Meta Baptist.