Hubby’s Home!
Hubby returned home after spending most of the summer away from home. He was getting paid to ride his bicycle on the Mickelson Trail, a 114-mile long state park in South Dakota. He gets asked all the time how he ended up with such a sweet deal of a job. Connections, that’s how. He does […]
Look For the Gains
This past week, I learned a new way of looking at decisions. I met Colleen Story at the Idaho Writers Conference earlier this year, saw her again at the West Texas Writers Academy (see her blog at http://colleenmstory.com/what-i-discovered-on-my-texas-speaking-tour/ for her experiences there), and then heard her present again last week at a meeting of the […]
Our 42nd Anniversary
We made an agreement before our wedding. We’d stay married for 60 years, then decide whether we wanted to continue with it or not. This year marks 42 years down and 18 to go. Seems like only yesterday, we had a decade down and half-a-century to go. Where has the time gone? When you spend […]
It’s Football Season!
The days are getting shorter, and I don’t like that. I like daylight. The only thing to console me is that it’s football season! I love football. I grew up on it. My dad and my brothers played so it was a part of our household. I learned to understand the game. So why was […]
Don’t Be Gullible
Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. (from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullibility). Definition of gullible: easily duped or cheated (from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gullible) Other than a long history of animosity between the two countries, ever wonder why Russia picked the US to covertly influence? […]
Go to the Fair!
It’s fair season! I love fairs where country people come together to compete for prizes and ribbons. Mostly I love being around country people. Most are the Salt of the Earth. I went to the Western Idaho Fair this past week. The exhibits are always amazing and fun to see. People are so talented and […]
Fabric Book Cover
One of the first blogs I wrote was about how I’m a dumper when I cook. I don’t measure the ingredients very often, but mostly guess at what looks right. Sometimes I sew in the same way. I’ve had my Bible for about 20 years now and I love it because it’s familiar, marked up, […]
Failure of My Generation
A thought has been rattling around in my head for years, and I have to get it out. I was complaining to a friend about how difficult it was to work with Millennials and she said, “We’re to blame. We raised them!” She’s right and boy, did we mess up! In my generation, we were […]