Kid in a Candy Store

August 24, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

Of all the things I’ve inherited from my father– the brown eyes, the curly hair….probably the most prominent thing I’ve inherited from him (and now passed to my daughter), is a passion for chocolate. We crave it. We adore it. We pout a little […]

Post cards from the weekend

June 11, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

This weekend was warm and clear, but we were in the Ozarks, off of Table Rock Lake to be exact, and so it didn’t have quite the oppressive heat of an Oklahoma summer. My husband’s parents have retired to this rural area, and their back yard dips down into the rocky woody beach […]

There once was a cowgirl…

February 26, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

They say that all girls love horses, and I think that for my girl, that is especially true. She’s always loved playing with little toy horses and coloring them in her color books, and seeing them put to pasture as we drive down country roads. Yesterday we got to see the real live animals when […]