Pauline Baird Jones

  • Proof The Hermit Did Travel

    While this was not my dream road trip, but rather a “race” to beat the moving truck to Wyoming (little did we know the truck was actually a turtle that took five weeks…), we did manage to stop at a couple of places along the way. (I should remember the name of this stop but I’m…

  • Our Palo Duro Stop #HermitRoadTrip

    There is a story behind this sign and this stop.  A long time ago, but in the same land, two crazy kids left college for the real world. As they drove across country, the hubs (I figure you guessed it was us) wanted to stop at every national and state park between Utah and Houston…

  • Closing Our Great Divide

    One of the biggest problems the hubs and I have had as a couple is that he is Mr. Road Trip and I’m Mrs. Hermit. For most of our marriage, we have tried to balance our opposites. I will not lie. It has been a challenge for both of us. Lol When the hubs decided…

  • Planning to Stay Home

    My sister was laughing at me because I have a paper planner. I keep it next to my computer and make notes on it. Sometimes neat notes, sometimes messy ones I can’t read later. She was laughing for two reasons. I’m like a tech addict. I put things on my phone’s calendar and I always…

  • After the Storm: Peace. Well, Relative Peace

    Every January, despite that whole, yay-it’s-a-fresh-new-year thing, I feel this urge to go on a writer’s retreat. Or just retreat. Not exactly sure which. Because I grew up around mountains and creeks, (cricks) this is generally where I imagine myself summoning the Muse (or using the crick to drown out my whining). I have yet…

  • Why I Don’t Go to McD’s in my PJ’s or the Curse of an Over Active Imagination

    I tweeted a couple of weeks ago that I almost went to McDonald’s in my pjs. Someone tweeted back: drive thru. Trust me when I saw that drive thru is my favorite way to get food. As a confirmed hermit it cuts down on the number of people I have to talk to. (Grin). I…

  • Daylight Savings Time is OVER. Boom!

    This is how I look the first day of Daylight Savings Time. I am not a morning person. The only good part of DST is when it leaves and I get my hour back. And I’d rather not lose it in the first place. So today I’m very thankful that DST is ending. (And if…

  • Perception Matters When Trying to Communicate

    If you look at the hub’s caption for this photo, you will see what he “saw” when he took this picture: the distant water gap. The first thing I saw was the lone picnic bench. I “saw” myself sitting there, maybe with my lap top, doing some writing. I could “see” myself being inspired by…

  • Houston, We have Autumn…

    I don’t know about you, but as the weekend closes in, I need things to lighten up a bit. And it’s autumn. Even here in Houston is is slightly cooler. And we have pumpkins, though not this display. This photo comes from the #hermitroadtrip. I pulled it from the hub’s Fickr page because it was…

  • The Road Home

    We live in a really beautiful country. It is also a very BIG country. Holy cow, is it big! And there are places were AUTUMN happens! Like autumn with leaves changing colors and everything! While there is much to love about living in Texas, I do miss having more than a couple of seasons. And…