Yesterday I unintentionally posted something on Facebook that was meant for one of the closed group pages I belong to, one that I try to contribute to daily–a page where one’s ‘gratitude’ is posted for all to see. It’s called … Continue reading
Yesterday morning my heart was so heavy with sadness, a continuation of how I felt when I went to bed the night before. A young police officer from my town was murdered in broad daylight yesterday afternoon by a man … Continue reading
Recently a story trended across the media about a couple from Breckenridge, Colorado who’d sold everything in order to buy a boat to sail the world, only to have it hit a sandbar, capsize, and sink in the Gulf of … Continue reading
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
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