The Short Adventures of Mildred Budge

When a church lady falls in love, she falls hard.
Sometimes she lands on her knees.
Miss Budge does as she moves quietly and powerfully through her daily life in Old Cloverdale, where F. Scott Fitzgerald once courted Zelda, and two miles away Nat King Cole was born.
Fitzgerald wrote about love. Nat Cole sang about love, and Mildred Budge knows...

What do church ladies really think?
Composed and often so quiet as to be thought invisible, church ladies have secret powers to change the world.
What are those special powers?
They love well.
They give well.
They can often cook!
And.... they play an essential role in a great rescue operation for mankind.
For although they appear to have Ninja...

“Don’t you ever want to run away from Christmas?”
Mildred Budge’s answer to Dixie was immediate and truthful.
“Yes, yes, yes,” Mildred said with conviction.
She couldn’t stop saying yes, though the very idea that a good church lady would want to run away from the occasion during the year that marked the birth of Jesus-- the reason for the season...