Cowboy Mardi Gras was celebrated in Bandera last week: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It had been promoted all over town since the beginning of the year, and spirits were high as the town braced for one of its biggest weekends … Continue reading
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. -Maya Angelou A friend back home recently commented that it looked as though I … Continue reading
“One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller We’ve been in Bandera, Texas four full weeks now. The weather’s cooperated with my wanting to be outdoors as much as possible, so the … Continue reading
I didn’t think I’d be writing again so soon, but yesterday was too good not to write about. The visitor center of any town we’re at for awhile is usually our first stop, and so it was when we got … Continue reading
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” -Cyril Connolly I was really good for awhile about updating this blog regularly, at least monthly…but then life happened midway through … Continue reading
The other day while painting the fence in our backyard, this thought popped into my mind: Do the Kardashians have babies so that they have job security? I laughed out loud at the notion, not that I care about the … Continue reading
Last Tuesday my family and I experienced the most fun day we’ve had in a long time when we went to The Climb Adventure Lagoon, http://www.survivetheclimb.com/, in Russellville, about 40 miles east of here. I happened to stumble upon its … Continue reading
It’s the last day of the month of May, and I still haven’t posted a blog. My goal is at least one per month. It doesn’t sound like much, and it really isn’t, because once I get going, my fingers … Continue reading
Sometimes when I try to understand why some things in life happen the way they do, I think of those grotesquely shaped, black pieces found in many puzzles, and somehow that seems to help. Viewed individually, each piece seems totally … Continue reading
Surprise. A little bit of pride. A lot of gratitude. These are some of the feelings I had the other day when one of my phone apps congratulated me on my 2,000th day of sobriety. Part of me (ego) thought, … Continue reading