Snow+Texas=SNOWRREAL: Snowmageddon2021

Feb 23, 2020 — Sitting in a warm house, with water and electricity, and the temperatures well above freezing at last, I can share about last week…but this won’t be one of my funny posts. Because there’s NOTHING FUNNY about what Texas went...

Oh, my…Mother Nature is not kidding around

Feb 15, 2021 — Yesterday, we woke up to deeply sub-freezing temps here in Austin, as well as a crazy amount of snow covering the already present ice. Being un-used to (or in complete denial?) of the extremity of the weather, we had neglected to drip the faucets....

Permit acquired! (but not without drama…)

Feb 9, 2021 — Good news from last Friday: My youngest child’s driving permit acquired. Hallelujah, y’all! Oh, but not without drama. Not without sweating. Not without a bit of anxiety-fueled high-pitched voices (mostly mine). I even wrote in my...

So easy to use, so easy NOT to use…

January 26, 2021 – One of my favorite books, The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson is so good…when I read it, I was ROCKED by the basic premise: So easy to do, so easy NOT to do: We are always micro-improving or we are always micro-failing, so we must continually...

Moms gone wild

Jan 21st, 2021 – I have this long list of previously ordinary things that I really miss: Hugging people outside of my immediate family, inviting people into my home to share food and fun, going to live music venues, when there wasn’t plexi-glass...