Yes, I am in love.  This is no exaggeration.  Ask my kids or Ray.  I am cooking in my Instant Pot almost every day.  The cool thing about this contraption, which is one part pressure cooker and one part slow cooker is that once you put everything in the pot and hit the timer, you can…

Yesterday, I saw love in my husband’s eyes, heard pride in his voice.  “It was pretty cool how you went to that drop-off station and unloaded that big couch and those two heavy doors all by yourself.” Ray had planned all week that he was the one who would be taking a necessary load to…

Just returned from Texas.  It is 12:11 am.  We had a successful workday at the condo, which included the new fridge arriving. The laundry room is where the fire was, but the smoke caused lots of repainting to have to happen.  All is well now. I am now going to bed.  Talk tomorrow. Here are…

I am sitting in our Fort Worth condo on actual furniture, no longer on the floor. The living room is set back up with pictures leaning where they will be hung tomorrow and there is even a fuzzy white rug on the floor. Never mind that the new washer and dryer are just past the…

Here is the second song that I have written.  This is based on a personal story of mine from when I was a young woman traveling in Europe alone. I met Gabriel in London two days before I was returning home and he was kind, loving and an overall good human being. He showed me…

Jacob Peterson stared at the tall taupe vase with its intricate pattern of circles and lines that held a bouquet of purple and white lilacs. He loved that vase that he had made with his own two hands; the pattern on it reminded him that life had dozens of lines and intersections, places to connect…

We are currently at our home in Sherman, Texas.  This is the view from my bed.  We have a wonderful upstairs master suite that includes this bedroom, which is charmingly quirky.  There are three windows in this room, two in alcoves that are about 5 feet tall; the third at the top of a very…

Today our preparation for a calm departure from our home to the airport took an unexpected turn when Ray came into the room and said, “I can’t find the car keys.”  Rachael and I calmly went from room to room, looking on tables and chairs while Ray searched through his pants and jacket pockets.  No…