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Dec 12, 20231 min read
Is Soup Supposed to Look Like That?
What do you make with frozen pumpkin? Besides the obvious, and best, choice, the choice which taunts me in hind sight: pumpkin bread....
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Love is What Feels Like Home
A friend commented to me yesterday that his house has never felt like a home. Hmmm... I can relate. Thinking back on the moves I've...
May 29, 20236 min read
Back Home Again at the Indy 500
I can't realistically sing Back Home Again in Indiana because I've been a Hoosier all my life. But I got to hear it sung live for the...
Feb 22, 20233 min read
A Play, a Bat, and a Bag of Bricks
This year has kept going with the bang that started it on New Year's Day--if you define bang as car trouble and car repairs. Weeks and...
Dec 31, 20222 min read
Want a Scam? and How to Drive
What do you think? I have been specially chosen by the widowed daughter of an African president to manage and control $27,000,000. She...
Nov 30, 20222 min read
I Survived Saying No to Myself at Hobby Lobby
It takes an act of God to wake us up and get us going some mornings. That was today. But once we did move, we had a beautiful, quiet...
Nov 24, 20221 min read
You Had Me at Fibonacci
Happy Fibonacci Day! Numbers fascinate me. Math is organized and predictable. It's right, or it's wrong, nothing in the middle. Black...
Oct 15, 20225 min read
A Visit With Grandma
My parents and I went to see Grandma last weekend. One part of the day included walking around her property, and the memories from all...
Sep 6, 20222 min read
Making a Mess
My kitchen looks like a crime scene if food could be a victim. Kara and her cousins, D & T, made... (da-da-da--that's a drum roll in case...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
ATM(om) and More
Child: "I need $20." Mother: "For what?" Child: "I just need some money in case I need it." Do they think I'm an ATM? Kara and I made a...
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Chocolate Horse Feed
Just some odds and ends for writing today. Life is too short to pull weeds all summer. A previous owner, one who cared anyway, took the...
May 25, 20222 min read
Mom, I Folded the Laundry
Tonight was one of those nights I just couldn't come inside. I endured the voluntary torture of dance fitness, but if you've read any...
May 23, 20223 min read
Happy Face, Sad Face
I'm really struggling to write lately. Not that I don't enjoy it; I do. It's just that so much is too personal to put out on a public...
May 9, 20221 min read
The Beautifulest Bouquet & Backyard
Mother's Day every year is both glad and sad. I'm glad to be a mother and to have my mother and mother-in-law. I'm sad from missing...
May 4, 20222 min read
De-Jungling the Yard
11:00 in the morning. This morning was a different version of the usual morning chaos. One child is home from school today, and the...
Apr 19, 20222 min read
8 Months of January
You know what a nice noise is when you're a parent? Hearing the toilet flush the way it's supposed to. Until you've had to fight with...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
A Granola Recipe & I'm Still Alive After Shopping
It is now April. We're past April Fool's Day. Nobody pulled a fast one on me, and if they did, I have yet to discover it. That also...
Mar 27, 20223 min read
Big Family & Bunny
Most of today was spent where I love best to be: surrounded by family. I grew up in a big, loud, happy family. I'm the third oldest of...
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Daydreams & Daffodils
Life isn't any fun without some embarrassment, or potential for embarrassment, here and there. What I'm talking about is the dance...
Feb 12, 20222 min read
Bon Jovi and Bon Ami
North-central Indiana woke up to a beautiful blanket of snow this morning. We've had snow already, but the old snow gets dirty--some of...
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