Family

Good job, ole gal! Welcome to the north. It's awesome some of the time...Not so much right now.

Have Friends, Will Travel…

So many thanks to my girlfriends, C and E, for coming down to Texas to help me leave mom and dad’s house for (hopefully) one last time and to enjoy a fun road trip home with my new car. I don’t know about the ladies, but I had a great […]

End of A Cowboy Era

I am back in the frozen tundra! For anyone not in the area, I am not being facetious.  It really is darn cold out there. I believe we are currently around -4. Reason #291 I am glad I work from home. Anyway, I felt like I needed to do some reflecting […]

On Parenting in the Time of Crisis

I took a pregnancy test this morning. Even though I was relatively confident that would be the result, I still cried when it showed negative. And then the rest of the day happened. How can I consider bringing a child into the world when crazy things like today’s shootings take […]

Here I Am, An Only Child

Oh gosh, that’s embarrassing. No writing for 10 months?! Unacceptable! But after a long hiatus  I’m back. I wish it didn’t take a tragedy to get me to write. It really is a fun hobby when I make time to do it. But that’s a topic for another day. In the […]

11 Years Ago Today…

I had one of the best birthday parties of my life. No, it wasn’t my birthday, but it was a fun, fun, fun night! The Black Pant Brigade went out strong and came home spent. Someone may have tried a cement mixer shot. Someone else may have left that person […]