We took to the woods yesterday. Maria, the cat, the guineas and me. I brought the Flip and as you will see by her expression at the end, she was not happy about my messing with the spiritual experience she was having. The song she is singing is a Taize meditation song, Veni Sancte Spiritus, [...]

This is usually my season of bitching. It starts the minute the thermometer begins to regularly dip below 65. It has been raining a lot here, so the bitching started earlier than usual. “You’re cold? Why?” my husband asks. What do you mean, why? I just am. He’s never cold. He has Pioneer blood. Me, [...]

Look what I found while shopping for green face paint and pink sparkly false eyelashes? A Southern Girl wig. Right next to the mullet wig. After I stopped laughing, I thought hey now, I’m a Southern Girl and I am raising a Southern Girl. We’re much classier down here these days, let me tell you. [...]

Little more than a week ago, I was washing the breakfast dishes and looking out the kitchen window toward the Guinea coop. I saw a very large, furry creature and wondered what a strange-looking raccoon was doing out at dawn. Then, it looked more like a large cat and then my city brain registered that [...]

down the hill It has been raining here since Thursday. Buckets, Torrents, End of Days-kind-of-rain. But, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Good for the earth, good for napping and good for lazy Sunday walks in your own backyard. Allow me to share some of my Zen with you, some of why despite the fact [...]

There are some wonderful things about living in The South — magnolias, croaking frogs and green hills. And, “Thank You” cards. People still send them regularly and oh happy me, look at the one I just got: “Grasias Pel Webos!” Which translates from a 5-year-old’s phonetics to “Gracias por los huevos.” (Thanks for the eggs) [...]

Fabulous Shoe by Secret-Agent-Mama Shoes are very important at a blog conference. Fabulous shoes. Women blog about their shoes, and post photos, even before they arrive. And, then they compliment and photograph each others shoes. A lot. One person admired the awesome boots I was wearing. I got them at a sample sale held by [...]

Fabulous Shoe by Secret-Agent-Mama Shoes are very important at a blog conference. Fabulous shoes. Women blog about their shoes, and post photos, even before they arrive. And, then they compliment and photograph each others shoes. A lot. One person admired the awesome boots I was wearing. I got them at a sample sale held by [...]

Given that you all allowed me to muck the blog up with information about Nashville’s English-Only challenge this past month, I think it’s valuable to offer this follow-up: The financial disclosure is out and 90% of the money that funded the effort to shut down translations in Nashville’s government came from an out-of-state group.  “Nashville [...]

Given that you all allowed me to muck the blog up with information about Nashville’s English-Only challenge this past month, I think it’s valuable to offer this follow-up: The financial disclosure is out and 90% of the money that funded the effort to shut down translations in Nashville’s government came from an out-of-state group.  “Nashville [...]