ALEXA STOP THINKING!

Alexa stop thinking! You are really getting too big for your britches. The nightmare of “the thinking” Ms. A began last week. Note: I will use this abbreviation for her as I generally check my blogs by having Microsoft Word read them back to me, and I don’t need her...

SURVIVING LIFE’S CURVEBALLS

This week has thrown more of life’s curveballs at me than I’d ever imagined possible in such a short period of time. The bad and good, all jumbled up into one. In the meantime, I’m desperately trying to complete my mission to be what I could have been. Basically, I...

1 DISTURBING ETHICS BROUHAHA

Upset and saddened sum up my feelings about the ethics brouhaha surrounding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. I was raised by a father who had a strong code of ethics regarding what was right and wrong. He worked for Exxon and had a cool mechanical pencil, dark...

WILD TEXAS WEATHER

Wild Texas weather descended upon the ranch Wednesday around eight pm. The sky lit up and rumbled, but it was all bark and no bite. Nary a drop of rain. Grumbling, I went to bed. You see, it’s been:  Dry so long, we only got a quarter-inch of rain during Noah’s Flood....

DEHABILITATING DEPRESSION

Since the 1990s, I have suffered with clinical depression. And, despite meds, it has taken hold of me in the past few weeks. At one point in my life, I became so depressed I was a walking zombie. Going to work, not able to think. Barely putting one foot in front of...

I’M RELATED TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!

William Shakespeare (1564-1626) is my 11th great-grand uncle! Who knew? Family Search dropped me an email the other day to inform me of this connection. I guess writing is in my genes. However, somewhere along the way, his genius got wiped from my DNA. WILLIAM...