• Putting on “Home”

    When you plan a Christmas release, or any other holiday release, you have to “get in the mood” well before said holiday. If you start writing during the holiday, well, it won’t release until next year. I sort of knew this, but I’d never tried it. So I started working on Up on the House Top in…

  • 10 Reasons It is Okay to be Old as Dirt

    This is the first August in years that went by at the speed of light. Usually August is something I slog through, beat up by heat, humidity, and the knowledge that I’ll be a year older by the end. And I’ll be lucky if the a/c doesn’t crap out on my “big day.” I’m still…

  • How I Came to Miss New Orleans

    While the math is a bit sobering, I can’t make it add up any differently. It was—gulp—thirty years—and almost exactly two months ago—that we began our journey toward knowing what it means to miss New Orleans. The hubs and I drove there from Texas with one daughter, a one-month-old baby and a six-week-old, new hip…

  • I Was Not in This Race…

    …but one of my daughters was and the hubs was there taking pictures. I had to share because I think the banner is a hoot. (I know, using hoot makes me sound old. News flash, I am old.) Though I did not run, it must be confessed, if Sasquatch was chasing me, I would run.…

  • What I’ve Learned From Where We’ve Lived

    First off, I wanted to let my Scenic Route friends know that I’m guest blogging (yes, again, sometimes the universe sends abundance!) at Julie Kenner’s blog today. Could definitely use some peep love! 🙂 As I was browsing the hub’s photos and mulling what scenic route to take today and for some reason I started…

  • My High School Reunion. O.O

    So yeah, just got back from my 40th high school reunion about a week ago. Above is my “official” graduation photo and here is how I looked the night of our reunion dinner: I had a really good time hanging with the high school peeps. It was great catching up again (this was the first…

  • Where Part of My Heart Is

    I have many homes. When I’m where I live, I am home, but home is also where my kids grew up. And I talk about “going home” when I am at home where I live. When I think about “going home,” I mean Wyoming. I have come to realize that a piece of my heart…

  • Where Perilous P is From…

    Jenny Hansen of More Cowbell  blogged about “How Do you Know where You’re from?” in August and she did such a lovely job with the meme, that I decided to give it a try. It’s much harder than I thought it would be! So here is my “where I’m from…” I’m from homemade bread, from black…

  • Friday Vid fun – Guy on a Buffalo

    I just spent two weeks at home in Wyoming, visiting with family and such, so am going a bit…rustic with this week’s video “find.” Normally I just post one video and let you explore the rest if you want, but Guy on a Buffalo tells a story–a twisted story–but a story nonetheless. WARNING! If you tend…