Rapunzel No More

July 14, 2011

Y’all probably don’t know this, because I usually only show you a picture of my eyes, but I have always had long hair. I’m talking extremely long. I don’t know why I felt compelled to wear it that way. Rapunzel had nothing on me, and I certainly understood the word “tangled.” Maybe I was clinging [...]

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And Layd Him On The Green

June 30, 2011

A marquee on a local bar announced the names of the bands that would be playing there this week. One of them was named “Fair to Midland,” and it got me giggling. I’m sure the band means it as a play on words, but when I was a child it was how my ears actually [...]

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Save Frida!

May 5, 2011

I’m calling the visitor at my house “Frida,” because her eyebrows are prominent — like the artist Frida Kahlo. But, I can’t get too attached. I have to find her a home. If this trend continues, I’m going to have to re-name this blog “Critter City.” All I can talk about lately are the creatures [...]

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Are You Like The Critter In My Attic?

May 3, 2011

There is a critter trapped in our attic! Believe me, I’m as distressed about this as the varmint seems to be. I hear how frantic it is up there and my tender heart feels the panic. More than that, however, I’m distraught about the smell that will invade my house when said critter curls up [...]

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Fear of Crayons

April 11, 2011

My palms got sweaty and my knees began to shake as I tried to color an iris with my “Colorsplash” application on my iPhone yesterday. It lets you convert a photo to black and white, then color in the details. Supposedly, that’s fun; I found the activity stressful, as a multitude of voices inside my [...]

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A Folktale for Those With Closed Eyes and Flapping Mouths

March 31, 2011

I’ve never met the parents who are objecting to the ghost story I told their children … the story that none of them heard. However, in my mind’s eye, I imagine that they have no noses. They cut them off to spite their faces. You see, that small (but very vocal) group of parents have [...]

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside

January 19, 2011

Old Man Winter is about to rear his ugly head again, but I have no room to complain. Our Texas winters are much milder than the rest of the country. I don’t know how y’all have been managing in places where you have a real winter; I’d never handle it. Though we haven’t had the [...]

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The Christmas Ornament That Melts My Heart

December 30, 2010

I know y’all aren’t going to believe this, but the mannequin that resides in my dining room actually broke into a grin when I took the Santa hat off of her head and packed away all the Christmas doodads. OK, maybe I stretched the truth a little, but I know that she is as happy [...]

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365 Thank You Notes? That’s Nothing!

December 29, 2010

Have you ever seen a book title and thought to yourself, “Aww, Thunder! I should have written that!”? It happened to me again when I saw the book 365 Thank Yous: The Year A Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life. The author, John Kralik, spent a year writing one thank you note a [...]

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Soured On Apple — The Unusable iPad

December 22, 2010

It was to be the perfect Christmas present for me. My beloved husband knew I had been lusting for an Apple iPad, so he went on-line and ordered one. He couldn’t wait to give it to me, even though he knew it would capture my attention for the holidays. It WAS to be the perfect [...]

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Can’t Catch Me …

December 15, 2010

My Momma thought that “fresh cookies” meant a newly opened package of Oreos. Now, there is nothing wrong with that. I like Oreos well enough, but it meant that I had never in my life had a gingerbread man. I was elated when I spied gingerbread men in the display case of the bakery, and [...]

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The Boulder In My Boot

December 6, 2010

I have no clue how that rock got into my shoe. Perhaps it was because I stumbled clumsily across the parking lot. Or, maybe that itty bitty rock hopped into my shoe to try to teach me some obscure life lesson. At any rate, it traveled over the top of my boot, down the length [...]

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Not Rough As A Cob

November 23, 2010

As I look at my bottle of Corn Huskers Lotion, I’m beginning to feel like my grandmother. I can remember Mamaw describing her hands, after a day of hard work, as “rough as a cob.” She was referring to a dried corn cob, of course. After weeks of stitching on the afghans for the kids [...]

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Address Unknown

November 22, 2010

It all started because my iPhone was possessed by the devil. Two Apple “geniuses” had told me that nothing was wrong with the phone, but they could not explain why it had taken on a mind of its own — and that mind was evil. Perhaps I opened a gateway to Hell when I downloaded [...]

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Dona Nobis Pacem — The Art Of Compromise

November 4, 2010

Tales of peace have been swirling in my head for weeks. You see, this is the day that I join with brothers and sisters from around the world to blog for peace on earth. World peace would be a marvelous thing, but it begins with each individual choosing peace. The old folk tales have marvelous [...]

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Spooky House Needs Story

October 29, 2010

She is a grand old home in San Antonio that is being restored to her former beauty. I couldn’t pass her by without stopping to wonder, “What story is behind this house?” I’m certain there are many, but I will never know. I stood in front of her listening, but didn’t hear her tell her [...]

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Miss Muffet Would Have Lost Her Mind

October 18, 2010

I’m not “Little Miss Muffet” from the nursery rhyme and it’s a darned good thing! You might recall that Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating a disgusting meal, and got frightened away by an arachnid. Miss Muffet was a scaredy-cat. If I were afraid of spiders, I’d never be able to tell stories at [...]

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An Issue Of Respect At Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty Restaurant

October 16, 2010

I’m not a big fan of “dress codes.” However, there are restaurants that have them, and if you want to eat there you abide by them. That seems pretty simple and straightforward to me. Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty Restaurant is taking some heat from the media for enforcing that with a group of World War [...]

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Time Is Ticking

October 15, 2010

Startled, I realized that my world was silent. Well, almost. There was a squirrel chattering outside my window at an enemy that only he could see (perhaps it was just testosterone talking). I could hear my cardinal calling, “Purdy, purdy, purdy,” and wondered who was so good looking. A distant train rumbled through Denton, and [...]

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Honey, About Those Greeting Cards

October 12, 2010

After gathering years worth of greeting cards sent between my husband and myself, during this Fall Overhaul of mine, I decided it was time to write a letter to my Sweet Spousal Unit! Dear Sugarfoot (I know you hate it when I call you that in public), We have to talk about this greeting card [...]

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