While the cat is away…

My husband is at a seminar out of town this week, a rare event for him, and with my son still at summer school, I’m home alone this week. Oh my! What to do with this opportunity? In the past, I took time home alone to do something fun like rent a chick flick and splurge(…)

Internet Issues….

I wasn’t sure I would be able to post anything here today. My internet has been down for three days and I was beginning to despair that it would ever be fixed! But it got me thinking about The Internet and how dependent I have become on it. My husband’s grandmother was 98 when she(…)

Sugarwater Ranch

Hey, all, I want to introduce you to a new friend of mine. Stephanie Berget is a true blue cowgirl who hails from one of my favorite places in the country to rodeo, the southeast corner of Oregon. Although we’ve never met in person and only online recently, we share a whole lot of acquaintances(…)

Summer Projects

Summer Projects

This summer I’ve involved myself in a lot of projects or home fix-er-uppers or just lost my mind. I’m not sure, but I know after years and years of back to back deadlines and feeling guilty anytime I played with something other my computer…I’m free, so to speak, to do whatever in the heck I(…)

Deep in the Heart of Dixie

This past Saturday, I had the privilege to be a guest author at the Heart of Dixie RWA Chapter Readers’ Luncheon, and what a thrill it was to be included in this wonderful affair! The HOD ladies (and even a couple of gents) certainly know how to throw an event!  The luncheon, held at the(…)

American Graffiti….

Our city doesn’t have a lot going for it. It is now ranked in the top 10 Worst Place to Live in America but it wasn’t always that way. Forty years ago when I was still a kid Modesto and the surrounding area was full of farms and dairies and small country towns where people(…)