Seasons come and seasons go. The sun rises and sets. Come sit by me. Let’s talk. Let’s talk long and deep and about the certainties of life… like the certainty of the promise of the wishberry. She asked why she had to grow up so fast. I don’t know sweet one, I don’t know. But…
It is easy to lose hope, and feel discouraged. Sometime you feel you’re hitting a wall at every turn. Raise your hand if you relate. Miracles do happen. I wasn’t born last Tuesday…obviously since I’m at least 29… *sigh* but if you’re not careful, life can blur into a haze and you’ll forget to see…
My phone buzzed and when I answered, I heard the voice of one of my sweet nieces on the other end telling me that her boyfriend proposed to her the night before, on Valentine’s Day! I shrieked and happy danced and exclaimed and generally expressed my excitement and happiness. (the happy dance may or may…
Remember way back on December 31st when everyone was ringing in the New Year? Everyone was all like: 2020 vision and new decade-ish and sending out the old and bringing in the new. Excitement was high. I admit, I didn’t feel a lot of excitement. I really felt kinda hopeless. *sigh* 2019 was HARD. Sometimes…
I don’t know who was more proud of this pretty plate of chocolate covered yumminess. Momma or daughter? She bought the strawberries and chocolate with her own money and in a little smidgin’ of time between school and band practice, she made these chocolate covered strawberries. She’d never done this before. I didn’t have time…
“Let TODAY be the start of something new!” Are you scared to try new things? You know, like eating raw snails, or holding pythons around your neck. People who know me best know that I’m shy. Y’all, I’m so shy that I’m scared to eat around people. Truth right there. Obviously, I’ve overcome that. Over…
Raise your hand if your house looks just a little bit “naked” after Christmas! Oh good! Me too. I mean, seriously, it’s like somehow Christmas got in the shower but forgot to take a bathrobe for the trip back to the closet.. like bare! Between November 1st to January 1st, there’s lights and wreaths and…
Everyone needs an amazing daughter in law like mine to introduce you to stuff…or people. Either one is fine. That’s how I met “The Shallots”. Only they aren’t people. They’re stuff or things. Hence forth in this blog post they will be referred to simply as: shallots. I had never heard of shallots until the…
Quite frankly, it’s not that easy to live without my mother. She’s on the left in this photo of her and Daddy herding sheep on the plains of Southwest Oklahoma. I think there were 600 sheep. I wanna ask her stuff. Some of the questions, I already know what she’d say. Other questions, I need…
Please tell me you have no earthly idea what a shallot is. You don’t? Oh good. I didn’t either till the day before Thanksgiving. And I’m “this many” oldish. I’m going to tell you about shallots sometime. But not this time. I know you’re disappointed. Start stock piling them though, because you’ll be amazed like…