Snowbound in our hotel, we decide to take a drive in ritzy Highland Park, less in curiosity and more about food for our stomachs. With the sun peeking out, we venture forth, layered up like a pan of [Read more...]
Well it’s over and done. Finisimo We finished that train-wreck of 2020 and all the carnage that left us feeling vulnerable like never before—sliced as thin as tissue paper. We wade out of [Read more...]
Yard games cease as five-year-old Jett looks up and asks, “Who’s coming to my house?” We wonder the same…Lumbering up our long drive is a truck. A U-Haul truck. What in the world? But as the guy jumps [Read more...]
The list lengthened month by month. Which list? Not the Christmas wish list, or the naughty vs nice list, but our 2020 Grinchy list of woe-is-me. It turned us not only green from sickness but a putrid [Read more...]
Mired in a holiday traffic snarl, I drum on my steering wheel, inching forward slow as a slug on a sidewalk. As I wait and scan the never-noticed-before landscape, I spy a fleeting movement in the [Read more...]
A niece, her husband, my parents, and 3 dogs. That’s it. The whole of the Thanksgiving gathering. So if you count the fur babies, and who wouldn’t, we have 8. Missing my kids, my sister, the [Read more...]
Hi Friend! We can’t contain our excitement! Today is the day! GRACED: My Mess is Not the Boss of Me is now available on Amazon. After 3 years of writing and re-writing and writing [Read more...]
(Our new book will land on Amazon in a couple of weeks so I thought I'd share one of the devotionals:) The drive-thru barista knows my dirty little secret. Tinted windows befriend me because [Read more...]
Looking at the blunt email with disbelief, I read it again and enlarge the attached photos. How could this happen? The picture shows stacks of boxes for a coffee shop in Oklahoma. My invoice [Read more...]
Who thought a road trip was a good idea anyway? After a 10-day visit from the kids, home was calling. I volunteered to ride back to Colorado with them to help curb the chaos of travel with a [Read more...]