That’s how most stories start in Texas, and I’m a professional storyteller(I love shivery ghost stories and folk tales). I have been telling tales for the last twenty years. Actually, I “spin yarns” both literally and figuratively. I backed into storytelling because of my strange hobby of spinning yarn on a spinning wheel. I can’t think of any job I’d rather have. You can visit my work website for more information at Spin Me A Yarn.

I fell in love with my husband because of his huge…vocabulary. I love words and in fact I’m bilingual. I fluently speak both English and Texan. Though I’d like to learn to speak Spanish, it eludes me.

I’m old enough to be a member of AARP, but young enough to be able to laugh about it. At least, I can laugh about it most days. My husband is younger than I am, but he gets to be a member of AARP, too. He says that he “grandmothered in.” I tell you what, I don’t like it when he sasses me like that!

In my house, I have a husband, a teenager, and five felines–it’s a zoo. I collect hats, which hang on my walls collecting dust. I have a hoard of “hands,” books, antique fans, spinning wheels, musical instruments, toys, antique tools, masks. I’m a recovering packrat. That’s a lie. I would like to be recovering.

I wrote up a cute little Wish List, and you can view it if you want. It’s all the places I would go and things I would do if that Texas Lottery would ever cooperate. I’m counting on it as my retirement plan. Looks like I’ll be working for awhile!

Do you wonder what you will find on this blog?
So do I. It is simply a collage of topics that intrigue me. Scroll through the articles and you will see that nearly everything does. I’m curious about anything and everything, and think the rest of the world should be inquisitive also. I hope you forgive the fact that I’m a little bit sassy, but I’m from Texas.

I’m using blogging to cure my addiction to computerized Mahjongg. It’s working.