Why We Need To Bring Back Skinny Dipping
Apparently there is a huge percentage of our female population that is starving to death as the stores were filled with teeny tiny size two bikinis. As a 38 year old female with some serious junk in...
View ArticleShellac Attack
I recently had the privilege of enjoying a 3 hour flight delay on a trip to see da family. 3 hours trapped at the Nashville airport. Without a Cinnabon. Where have all the Cinnabons gone? Bring them...
View ArticleCaaaaaaaaakkkke!!!!!!
So yesterday I turned the big 4-0. 40! Did you hear me? I said 40! After having 24 hours of experience as a forty year old – I have to say….this ain’t a bad gig. I have decided to totally own 40....
View ArticleFavorites: Hair, Face and Ears
Hair, Face and Ears. Eyes, Finger, Toes. These are some things I take wherever I goes. Actually there are no eyes, fingers, toes products here. I just said that cause it gave good rhythm. HAIR: I have...
View ArticleWrinkles
I smiled at myself in the mirror today. All of my wrinkles smiled back at me. Grinning like cheshire cats they were. I knew there were a few there. But somewhere along the way they invited over...
View ArticleWalmart Guy and A Sparkly Hello Kitty
8:00 in the morning. The Chicken Farmer and I wander through the Walmarts for a watch band. The man knows how to whip up a morning date. We find what we need and head to the only open cash register....
View ArticleStitchfix: A Cure For Shop-ophobia
Please pull my nails out with pliers, lash me to a water board or lock me in a den with snapping turtles. Do not make me shop. I have linebacker shoulders, child bearing (make that “done beared...
View ArticleMy Ordinary Lens: Week 10
This week was fast and blurry. So we focused on the simple to slow things down. Twist and pin. Twist and pin. That’s become my morning routine. I need a haircut. I got up early on Sunday. To make...
View ArticleFor Your Mouth: High Cotton – Charleston, SC
We met a friend for lunch. It was muggy and I was hungry. High Cotton – from the outside, just another restaurant on a busy street in Charleston, South Carolina. A black awning. A simple wooden sign....
View ArticleThings I’m Lovin’ – June
1. The Forest Feast is the latest edition to my cookbook collection. The pictures are pretty. The recipes are simple and uncomplicated. There are no fancy, exotic ingredients. Everything can be found...
View ArticleA Holy Place
Call people to gather. To sit together. To lift up hearts and hands. To seek love and forgiveness and laughter and nourishment. Church pews. Kitchen tables, park benches or chairs and TV trays in the...
View ArticleRestless With A Side Of Soul Itch
I’m restless with a side of soul itch. I’m feeling in-between and moving-on and letting go and kicking ass. It’s a fork in the road. A turn left or right moment. Over the cliff or sit way back from...
View ArticleSour Cherry Compote
I’ve got an easy way to make you look fancy. Compote. When you put French words in your mouth – you sound classy and people will want to eat what you make. Compote is french for “mixture”. We’re...
View ArticleListen To Your Mother 2014 Comes To YouTube
Photo courtesy of the talented Kerry Woo April seems like ages ago. I shared a stage with 12 other women for a Listen To Your Mother performance. I stood and read some words in front of people. My...
View ArticleClaiming Her Bones
I’ve instructed, guided, encouraged, inspired, warned, scolded, annoyed and had a hand in her life every minute of every day. I’ve tried to give her grace, courage and girl balls. Her days are knitted...
View ArticleSour Cherry Popsicle
Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, I sat in a chair and fought off the cold with an Amazon shopping spree. While the sky outside was a silver-grey and the wind whipped arctic air under my...
View ArticleThings I’m Lovin’: August
1. Magnum bars: I know they’ve been around awhile. I bought them for the first time this summer. Best eaten late at night, on a 90 degree day, when you’ve sweated like a sumo wrestler in spandex doing...
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