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The PW Connection
I think almost any gal who’s started a blog over the last few years has flirted with the fantasy of becoming “The Next Pioneer Woman.” I am under no such illusions. There are some similarities between...
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Topsy Turvy Freaky
It’s weird the things that can frighten me now that I’m an adult. I’m not talking about real horrors that could rob me of my sheltered life: terminal illness, family tragedies, natural disasters,...
View ArticleEaster Thoughts, Recycled
This post contains 95% post-consumer, recycled materials. Just doing my part to be “green.” Heh. The truth is, I have other posts in the works (no, really) but my thoughts have been traveling this same...
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It’s The End of the World (As We Know It)
Yes, it’s been awhile. If this post had musical accompaniment, it would be REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.” Except I don’t feel fine. I’ve had every symptom in the book. And it’s hard...
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Things to Do in Dallas When You’re Dead
Dead tired, that is. Because I’m sure I will be after I make my way through (part of) this building. This is the World Trade Center (WTC) building at Dallas Market Center. Fifteen floors of, well,...
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The Earth Moved
In more ways than one. In addition to a rash of local earthquakes, I am dusting off the blog. A little brush up for the techy-parts — yikes, oodles to clean up — and then I plan to reintroduce myself...
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Pinned.
Pinning has taken on a whole new meaning since my college days. (Okay, after my college days, which are waaaaay back when…) Now that I spend a lot of time sitting around doing nothing except providing...
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Jimmy Kimmel is a Sadist
There. I said it. I’m sure I’ll catch flak for this post. Fine. I can take it. I put on my big girl panties this morning. For those who missed it, late-night guru… couch jockey… whatever Jimmy Kimmel...
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Exorcising the Dark Side
I am easily annoyed. I’m also not particularly confrontational. Put two-and-two together and it means any given day may find me teed-up and lacking an opportunity to vent. Especially if my husband’s at...
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Well, drat.
I updated a WordPress theme, little knowing how completely it would lay waste to the appearance of my blog. Apparently, I need to employ child themes more effectively. So the blog looks funkified. And...
View ArticleMotherhood (Abridged)
As she pushed from her forehead a curtain of frizzy bangs — coaxed into prominence by tendrils of steam emanating from the pot of homemade tomato sauce and meatballs over which she had labored all...
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2014: A Kitchen Odyssey
Is it odd that, in plotting personal goals for 2014, some of the first things that come to mind are dishes I want to make? Maybe. I’ve stumbled upon the “culinary bucket lists” of others, though, so I...
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Cops: Camelot Edition
My boys are going through an art phase right now. Consuming more paper than your average newspaper. Imperiling my furniture and carpets by leaving random assortments of crayons, glue and scissors...
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I am a Crap Photographer
For anyone who’s suffered through the “images” featured on this blog over the last 3.5 years, the following announcement won’t come as a surprise. I am a crap photographer. I’m not being modest. I...
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Manna from Down South
Sausage, Biscuits and Gravy Reading about God sending manna to the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness makes me think of biscuits. I know that’s a bit illogical. (And probably irreverent…...
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Brie It On
Baked Brie en Croute My repertoire of appetizers is very short. Probably because, when there’s any occasion which demands an appetizer, Baked Brie en Croûte is the only one I want to make. Cheese....
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Black Magic for Valentine’s Day
Black Magic Mini Cupcakes Today was our first “off day” in what seems like an eternity. No workmen in the house. Nowhere we had to go. Nothing we had to do. Almost like a vacation. (For the kids, at...
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S.B. 906: PolitiCrap
The Oklahoma State Senate recently passed Senate Bill 906, a measure which proposes to change the way the state’s seven electoral votes are awarded in the outcome of presidential elections. If S.B. 906...
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Sooie for Your Supper
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Families will grow, even as budgets may not. My two boys — who seem to go through growth spurts faster than they do batteries — are not yet eating us out of house and home. And...
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“You Don’t Know Beans”
Summer ’98: Young, tan and “just dating.” In honor of Throwback Thursday, I’m throwing it waaaay back to 1998. Summer, to be exact. That was my second summer down on the Gulf Coast of Florida, working...
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