Janet wasn’t sure why life seemed so complicated these days. Maybe it had to do with the way the wind was always blowing, tossing her short gray hair this way and that, and reminding her of happier times before Chet died. Chet, her husband of 35 years, who woke up one day and said he…
Month: January 2013
Time to Switch This Tired Brain to OFF
Welcome to the land of the living dead. Too much work in too short a time. Yikes. I have hit the wall – at least for tonight – and am ready to go stare at the television set with no care for what I am watching. For future reference, please remind me not to combine…
Shopping for a Tiny Apartment Kitchen
‘The house is quiet. It is 11:30 pm. Shadows fall across the floors in 2 rooms I can see from my vantage point in a chair near the gas heater in the staircase room of our Victorian. I don’t have one word to say that I think anyone would find interesting. But here I am…
5 Star Recipe for Orange Cranberry Pecan Muffins
I love collecting recipes and this one came from a recipe box I bought at an estate sale several years ago. The box is made up of two long file drawers in a small oak cabinet and each drawer is crammed full of the owner’s favorite recipes clipped from newspapers or magazines, along with hand-written…
Three 21-Year-Olds on a Road Trip
Our daughter Rachael and her two friends, Natasha and Keara, decided last week to take a road trip from Los Angeles to our home in Sherman, Texas, which is 60 miles north of Dallas. They arrived today after 22 hours of driving spread over 2 1/2 days. The girls, all college seniors, arrived tired, but…
New Year: New Tenants
We have officially rented our little house and tonight is the first evening of occupancy. Our tenant is a man with 4 kids and a wife, all of whom are back in Tulsa. They will arrive after the school year and, at that time, they will look for a house. We also received a down…
IKEA and A Change in the Look of Texas
We made the 46 mile trek today to IKEA in Frisco, Texas. We are creating a small apartment in the upstairs of our Victorian and needed a bed frame, plus other sundry items. I was struck by two things while in that North Dallas megastore. One was the number of children there – every couple…
20 Minutes a Day 