10 Reasons to Navigate Your Life Like Google Maps

I’m pleased to repost a blog by Catherine Matthews, 10 Reasons to Navigate Your Life Like Google Maps. Catherine is a silver friend. For you non-Girl Scouts, as Brownies, we learned a musical round: Make new friends and keep the old. One is silver and the other’s...

MY PERSONAL KILLING FIELDS

Spring has sprung, and the action is heating up in my personal killing fields. My general tendency is to butcher almost everything I plant so it will be a long season. Because of my dismal track record, I stick mostly to succulents and cacti, which are harder, but not...

1 UTTERLY EFFECTIVE WANDERING MIND

One of my absolute best traits is a wandering mind. I’m not alone. A growing body of literature suggests that we take our mind away from the task at hand, about half our waking moments. Our brain moves backward or forward in time rather than just being in the moment....

MY FIRST RODEO

My first rodeo wasn’t the 2022 Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo. Over the years, I’ve seen Sonny and Cher, Charlie Pride, and Bob Dylan, to name a few. Sigh, yawn. Performances in the Astrodome, then in NRG Stadium, never dazzled. The dome’s sound system was...

KIDNEY DONATION SAVES LIVES

An extraordinary kidney donation will occur on March 29, 2022. Two women, whose lives intersected on Zoom during COVID lockdown, will become one. The daily Zoom meetings were spawned by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association as a way to stay connected to the writing...

MOUSECAPADES REDUX

Well, ya got trouble, my friend, right here,I say, trouble right here in Fayette County, Texas. Mousecapades 2022 has begun. Yep, I can’t believe it, but I seen it with my own eyes! Unfortunately. After returning from a weekend trip, my husband announced he saw a...