2018 Olympic Update: I'm obsessed with the Olympics. While watching the bobsled last night I couldn't believe last summer, I hurtled down a 103 foot vertical drop on the track from the 2002 Winter [Read more...]
We all know someone with cancer as it runs like wild horses through our towns, our churches, our families, our selves. Our children sicken and die of the flu of all the blasted things. And cars wreck [Read more...]
After a full day of shopping, bone-tired exhaustion set in. I "deserved” a treat. I smiled and slurped my hot chai as I strolled down the terminal. Shopping is work. Hard work with aching feet to [Read more...]
The text message screamed, “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL”. What followed was thirty-eight excruciating minutes of terror. An ordered world [Read more...]
Puzzlement washed over her guest. “What is this room?” The ancient homeowner’s bright eyes twinkled at the question. Her grin only increased the wrinkles covering her face like an unironed shirt. [Read more...]
The pounds snuck up in a cruel game of mid-life Truth or Dare. Those sneaky ones somehow crept into my middle section and dared me to get rid of them. The kind of pounds that pop buttons, and squeeze [Read more...]
The turkey bakes dark and hot in it’s hidey-hole. No aroma of burnt offerings waft from the kitchen, only mouth-watering promises. So all is well…for now. I’m a second, maybe third generation burner, [Read more...]
What is happening to us? Land of the free, home of the brave. A country of great pride and privilege. Yet a land fraught with violence. The shocking statistic, we average a mass shooting (four or [Read more...]
We lived bold as the young and invincible do. Thinking nothing of driving home to Texas late at night, we snaked dark and lonely as the scant houses blurred past. Winding through the ebony [Read more...]
I was in the zone. Visions of possibilities danced in my head as I strode down the breezeway to view her new bedspread. Maybe a linen upholstered headboard and lovely floral draperies to flank the [Read more...]