I Do Declare

I think the first time I watched Gone with the Wind I was somewhere around the age of 10 and the reason I remember the movie is not because of the movie itself or even some of its famous and oft-quoted lines. I remember watching the movie on the couch in our family...

Curly Hair, Don’t Care

I remember the actual moment when my curly hair finally made sense to me, that ah-ha moment when drying my hair went from, are you kidding me in the exasperation sense, to the are you kidding me in the dang! my hair looks ah-mazing sense. I was on a business trip in...

Crushing Time with My Teens

If I had a dime for every time I’ve said, I need to figure that out, I swear to you I would be a millionaire at the very least. Then, if I added the nickel I got for every time I woke up in the morning and the words, I’m sooooo tired, before my feet even hit the...

Fledgling Eagles & Human Teenagers

In March, the girls and I started watching the Big Bear Valley Bald Eagle nest-streaming camera showcasing a pair of bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow, who had just laid their first brood of three eggs. At the time we started watching, the first egg just hatched and we...

My Words, Their Voice

In recent weeks I have been trying to map out my life. Again. This isn’t the first time I’ve gone through this exercise and I know it won’t be the last. Even so, I am trying to work out what direction to take with my writing and, because the two are so intertwined,...