After attending two church services, one black Friday shopping excursion, hanging three shelves and baking four apple pies over the course of the long holiday weekend (p.s. I still have apples...) I'm not done savoring this one little word: gratitude. I'm grateful that Thanksgiving came in spite of my bratty attitude which proceeded it. I'm thankful that despite my… Continue reading The Best of the Thanksgiving Leftovers
Fifteen minutes before leaving on vacation found me crying, with a bruise forming on top of my right cheekbone. I had lost the fight with some of the boy's musical gear due to my own clumsiness as I loaded it into the car and a black eye was not the baggage I had planned on carrying with me for… Continue reading Lost and Found
Somewhere beneath the piles - paper flowers, dusty estate sale trinkets, granny's hankies, mounds of junk jewelry, musty trunks, too many pieces of dark furniture and odds and ends patiently waiting to be chalk painted - you'll find me. I'll be the one looking harried, covered in glue, some ink and a whole lot of sanding… Continue reading Color Changing Words
{You're about to read part two - a follow up from my post last week. If you haven't read part one- you can find it here and I'll be ready and waiting with the rest of the story when you get back....} Three to four hundred... Thousand... Dollars. That's the price range the nice lady realtor relayed in her… Continue reading When Your Will Isn’t My Way
Planted just near the end of my evening stroll with a wide board walk stoop and tin roof stands an old nameless building. In a former life it may have served as a gas station given it's wide bay door off to the side but driving by now, one would hardly find it a refreshing oasis on… Continue reading How to Own the Business of Being You
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