My guess is that you are feeling subscription fatigue, too. It seems like everything is a subscription these days! Not only do we have many subscriptions in our normal life—music, tv/movie streaming, sports …
Visit Maine with me!
It has been nearly two years since we’ve taken an actual vacation—a trip with no other people or work attached to it. We are tired, so as we planned our trip, we decided to go to what has become one of our favorite places to …
Graduation Throwback
This month marks 40 years since I graduated from high school. How is that even possible? So in honor of the occasion, I thought I’d show all the young ones out there what the mid-1980s were really like, at least in Texas! …
The Cheer Squad
This story started months ago. My daughter had several friends from church running a half marathon in Maine in May. She decided she wanted to try it, despite never running in her life! My sister, who ran a couple …
Easter Weekend Fun
Spring is always a busy time at our house. Lots of travel and several birthdays. And Easter. Which was quite a whirlwind this year, but a lovely time with family. My in-laws came to visit for the week. …
Guest Post: Crystal Caudill
Hey y'all! My friend Crystal is posting for me today. If you haven't read her historical romance/mystery books, you should! Now here's Crystal: There is Only One Way to Do It If we’ve not met, you probably don’t …
The Life I Never Imagined
Life takes us through lots of twists and turns, doesn’t it? Even when we have a plan, things tend to go as we least expect. I think about that a lot these days. Why? Because I never imagined Jeff and I living the …
A peek into my (very distant) past
This is a story of boxes lost and found. Or rather found, because I really didn’t know they were lost! When we sold our house in Rockwall after our move to Austin in 2015, I found some things we’d forgotten up in our …
Three Plays in Three Days
We aren’t usually this social. And while we love musicals and plays, we don’t usually attend the theatre this often. But everything came together as a perfect storm, and we found ourselves in the audience three times …
The Things We Do for Love
The old 1970s song “The Things We Do for Love” ran through my head often last week. And while it’s a song about romantic love, my context was the love of parents for children and grandparents for grandchildren. You …