• Keeping Hope Going #Monday #Smackdown

    So, last week was one of “those” weeks where I got three and a half days of Monday, which totally hosed “hump” day and some other stuff. I won’t dwell on what turned my days into one unending Monday because whine-one-one is not that fun for the person on the receiving end of it. But,…

  • Time Travel Thanksgiving

    I feel like I’ve been traveling through time. Being back home has swept me back into my past, and now I’m home for Thanksgiving for the first time in at least thirty years, possibly, probably longer. In the eighteen years of Thanksgivings before I left for college, I’m quite sure they weren’t all cold and…

  • You Can Go Home Again

    I know “they” say you can’t go home again, but actually you can. You buy a ticket, get strip searched at the airport, and many painful hours later, you walk off the plane in what used to be… Home. Or you can hop in a car and drive, bypassing the strip search and the painful…

  • Getting Your Summer On

    I am not a fan of summer. I know that sounds wrong, but I’m not. I have no problem with long lazy days. I do have a problem with heat. Particularly August heat, but this post is not another whine about something. As I was working on my publishing to-do list this week, I fell…