Life Lessons I’ve Learned from Applying Makeup

  Type-A folks aren’t fond of thinking they’ve wasted time doing anything. When I heard the average woman spends 474 days of her life slapping on lipstick and lining her eyes *applying makeup*, I had to search for purpose in all that mirror time. Here, then, is...

Skillet Cookery: Country-Style Squash

  This dish is so easy to make, and anyone who likes squash will love it. 3 to 4 slices chopped bacon 1 large onion sliced med. thin 2 med. tomatoes, chopped 6 medium-sized zucchini, sliced 2 yellow crookneck squash, sliced, (or use 8 small to med. zucchini squash...

Just Clowning Around

Rodeo clowns are real heroes. A suspendered dude with a barrel for britches who keeps a 2,000-pound bull from stomping a mud hole in you certainly gets my accolades! But where are the clowns if you’re not a rodeo star? I sure didn’t see any a couple of desperate times...

Texas Hot Chili Popcorn

Popcorn ½ cup uncooked popcorn 3 Tbls. cooking oil (grapeseed or peanut oil works great) Add 3 or 4 kernels of uncooked popcorn to heated oil and cover with a lid. When kernels pop, add rest of popcorn kernels in an even layer. Cover, remove from heat and count 30...

Clearing out Cobwebs

Spring has erupted with an outbreak of green buds, insanely happy twittering birds and a sales surge in allergy meds. Synonymous with spring is spring cleaning, that time when we attack every inch of our lives with renewed determination to clear out the cobwebs....