First Baptist Blog

I have been trying to pay attention to my feet lately.  I have fairly unremarkable feet. 

ENan and I both have birthdays in mid-summer, so to celebrate we headed to the Walnut Creek Music Park in Raleigh...

It seems as though running is the theme these days. 

There are certain mysteries of life that continue to baffle me.

They say deaths come in threes.  I hope they are right because I don’t want to experience the loss of another friend any time soon.

We just put the last of our family members on an airplane back to California, officially ending Baldwin Family Beach Week – 2024.

It has been HOT in Wallace!  Temperatures have been in the upper 90s with a “feels-like” temperature of 103.

Today is the Fourth of July – Independence Day in the USA. 

ENan and I attended a wedding last weekend.  It was the first wedding we have attended in quite a while.  The wedding was a beautiful affair

It was early April, 2020.  We were in the heart of the Coronavirus pandemic.  Schools were closed.

ENan and I are pretty good at entertaining ourselves, especially while shopping.  We love to wander through gift shops, with absolutely no i

Every spring ENan and I go on the hunt for new hanging baskets to place on our porches and to hang on poles around our yard. 

ENan and I had an opportunity to spend a few days at Topsail Beach (pronounced Topsul by locals) last week.

One part of our recent always-something, never-finished, spring-cleaning chores required that I take down the ferns we have hanging on our f

The goal at our house this week is to get the redneck swimming pool ready for summer fun. 

There is a new house under construction in our neighborhood. 

I make no claim to be an art connoisseur.  I have not studied the great masters of Renaissance art. 

Even though ENan and I are not what you would call “real country music fans,” we thoroughly enjoyed our recent visit to Nashville. 

ENan and I took off on a road trip last week to Nashville, Tennessee. 

In the 1970s, Gilda Radnor introduced a character known as Roseanne Roseannadanna on Saturday Night Live.