“This isn’t what it looks like,” I blurted out as I opened the car trunk. My husband peered over his glasses and asked, “Oh? And what do you think it looks like?” I said, “Uh, maybe my mom left her shopping bags in my trunk.” Knowing that my 75 year-old mother does not wear 3” Read More

Seven years is a long time to go without a haircut, but Prickles the Tazmanian sheep did it.  She wandered off during the 2013 Australian brush fires and found her way home in 2020. Having missed six years of regular shearing, she was one wooly merino. Like her, I have thick, naturally curly hair that Read More

In a small town diner around 1978, I watched my dad leave a five dollar bill and two ones on the table for the waitress a tip. That was a lot of money back then. A few minutes later, our family was on the way out the door and so was the five dollar bill-mom Read More

My dad liked John Wayne movies and, as a child of the 70’s in a one television household, that meant we all watched John Wayne movies. One such movie was called True Grit. At the time, I thought the word grit meant tough because a 14 year old girl went searching for a rough, rugged Read More

I once heard Crystal Lewis sing about trading ashes for beauty and I think I’m ready to take her up on that deal. In the last two weeks, I have had close encounters with my share of ashes. Two family members have passed away, others are fighting Covid-19 and a few days ago my husband’s Read More

Every time I get a whiff of Play Dough, it takes me right back to first grade. Our teacher would let us have freeart time every Wednesday morning and we could pick something from the craft supply basket to make ourmasterpiece. I always went for the Play Dough because mom wouldn’t let us have any Read More

I was not a happy camper when I suspected the gadget on my wrist was deducting steps for every minute I scroll through social media. There were 4,532 steps showing when I opened a new tab on my phone and an hour later 900 steps were missing. Did I lose steps by doing nothing?  I Read More

Are there days when you still get scared?” When my coworker asked the question, I had to stop and think for a minute. I couldn’t really say I get scared, but I definitely didn’t feel at ease on most days. You know, those days when something feels a little off but you can’t quite put Read More