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Making a Mess

I got the bright idea to make a beef bourguignon stew this weekend. I’d had it a long time ago and loved it. Since it sounded so good to me, I decided to make a pot of it. I got a recipe off the internet and armed with the list of ingredients, visited the grocery […]

Four Days of WIP24

The last four days, I sat in the computer room connected to a vibrant community of women talking about writing topics. One of my favorite conferences, the Women In Publishing Summit is a virtual event. I enjoyed it all and learned a ton of new information, but I’m tired! Why is sitting in a chair […]

Weird Week

We spent a week away from “home” (in my case, home isn’t so much where the heart is, but rather where we are living at the time), visiting my parents and attending a reception given for our daughter at Texas A&M. We took my parents along as we visited friends we haven’t seen in a […]

Mechanical Awareness

Last week, I admitted to being totally ignorant about financial matters when I was much younger. This week, let me tell you how stupid I was where my poor car was concerned. I freely admit I wasn’t too smart when I got out of high school. My grades made me appear to be, but the […]

Financial Literacy

Last night, Hubby and I were laughing about my first forays into adulthood: getting a loan. My dad gave me the loan papers to fill out, and I dutifully wrote in all I knew about myself and offered my 6-year-old junky car as collateral. It’s all I had to my name. When I got to […]

Getting Past the Obstacles

I bought a jar of pickles this past week. It remains unopened because no one in this house can open it. I’m not sure what to do now. Should I take it to church and see if anyone there can open it? Should I visit a neighbor (I know none of them) and see if […]

Don’t Tell Our Kids

Growing up with a stern father made us kids fearful of what would happen if he found out we’d participated in some shenanigan or did something we knew he’d get mad about. An oft-heard statement was, “Don’t tell Dad!” We knew either a long lecture or a hard spanking would follow his learning about what […]

Was That What I Think It Was?

This past week, on a backroad to a small Texas town, I was approaching a corner in the road that blocked my view of where the road would go up the hill after crossing a small creek. A motorcycle police officer, his lights flashing was riding down the centerline and moving cars like me to […]