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...

Bu++ Bites Build Gristle

It’s like this – the gander that was flapping my face, back and legs . . . . . . while simultaneously biting blood blisters on my little three-year-old derriere didn’t know he was contributing to my future confidence factor. Being left alone in trees by older cousins...

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...

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....

Series: Soups On! ~ Homemade Chicken Soup

Wikipedia says Americans consume approximately 2.5 billion bowls of Campbell’s canned Tomato, Cream of mushroom and Chicken Noodle Soup each year. Canned soup . . . really? Perhaps it’s because they never tasted really delicious homemade soup? My mission, if I...