By nature I am not ungrateful. I am, however, prone to feeling overwhelmed at the sheer cliff of my own mental task list. And I can also procrastinate with the best of them. Which is why it has taken me from November 11th until today to pass along the Best Blogger Award I received from [...]

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It’s still very much my goal to be like my dear friend SuziCate and post a blog a day. So far, I’ve not done well with that. Right now I’m blaming it on the fact that it’s all I can do to keep my head above water while getting settled into a new location. It [...]

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For my Mama and Hosa. Merry Christmas 2009. Last night my family sat down to watch The Homecoming. Everyone was in town for Christmas Dinner a night early, and it was kind of cool to be watching the original Walton’s movie with my sisters and mom, since we actually lived right there in Walton Country [...]

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Several month back I found my dear friend Susan on Facebook. We went to elementary school and junior high together but hadn’t seen each other since 1978, when I moved back to my hometown from the mountains. Over the course of the summer and fall we’ve managed to get together quite a bit and share [...]

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I just came close to having a meltdown, but I cleaned the bathroom instead. It’s 1:31pm on the second full day of the November Nor’Easter. The dogs and I just got back from a walk up the street to check the water levels, and the neighborhood is still basically cut off from the rest of [...]

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I came home from work this evening to see a “for rent” sign posted in my yard. It was a surreal feeling, and I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry. It’s easy to dream,  and make big plans, and get hyped and giddy fantasizing about the future. Yet,  it was a little bit odd [...]

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Way back in my first post I dangled the threat of publishing my first screenplay on my blog. I wrote it in the 4th or 5th grade for the members of my 4-H Horse Club to perform in front of our school. Why in the world I was handed the responsibility of leading a 4-H [...]

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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the day my Daddy died.  As much as I love summer, the month of July is always bittersweet. It somehow seems wrong that in this season of long lazy days and hot forever nights, of fireflies and  full moons,  of cricket songs and bullfrog lullabies, of loving and living [...]

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I like to think my inner being reflects to the outer world a karma-peace-live-and-let-live-balanced-yoga sort of persona —  all ZenMama. Then I look in the mirror and I see Veruka Salt. She’s the obnoxious kid in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory who goes around screaming, “Give it to me! I want it now!” Because [...]

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