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When I was born, and for many years after my birth, my paternal grandparents lived on a beautiful little farm in East Texas. This was the place where my Dad and his siblings had all been born and raised in a tiny little farmhouse without electricity or running water. To my memory, it was a magical place. Beautiful trees, chickens and various animals, and an old barn which was labelled off-limits to us children –… Read More
6 June 2016 The word “breakfast” can bring contention and irritation to almost any person’s mind, especially if it’s connected to the words “selecting” and “preparing”. Our current culture of running our lives by the clock causes hurry and distraction in the mornings, and selecting breakfast dishes to prepare and then actually preparing them seems impossible. Our breakfasts – when we have breakfast – tend to be much the same. We have them because that’s… Read More
My life has been kind of odd and downright painful from the very beginning, but right now I’m truly enjoying a stretch of peace. I’m broke. I live with my two grown offspring and two large dogs. Here’s where I come from. By merging our finances a bit, we were able to buy a decent house together. Our furniture is kind of college dorm stuff, but we’ll upgrade as soon as the IRS quits taking… Read More
26 May 2016 Green Spaces Today my family and I are blessed to live in a city that has learned from the past and has incorporated green spaces into its very fiber. When I was a child (during the Dinosaur Age, as my kiddos like to call it), my family lived in Dallas Texas. Texas is a magnificent state in many ways, but eco-consciousness had not caught on there in the 1960s. Visiting the downtown… Read More
The calendar turns over another page and suddenly we’re three weeks from the first day of summer. Here in the Denver area we’re expecting our first ninety degree day next week. Then my little family starts relearning the coping hints we use for hot days every year. Not one of the three of us (four, if you include Bratty Puppy) is heat tolerant. Nor do we particularly love the snow. We all have a temperature… Read More
