Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

I woke up this morning to two wide blue eyes staring at me from five inches away.  The eyes moved to two inches away and a blonde head of downy…

Thoughts and Musings

Little Friend went to the doctor today and was diagnosed with “Christmas Fever.”  It sounds technical, right?  Not quite the ear infection that I had imagined after the past week…

Thoughts and Musings

Sometimes failure looks like a messy house. Failure leers at me from the kitchen sink where dishes multiply with the voracity of an alley-full of un-spayed cats. Failure jeers at…

Thoughts and Musings

What does one do when one returns to Pittsburgh from a beach Thanksgiving to find a grey-shrouded, mist-breathing Midwinter has settled on her heavy haunches to brood until spring hatches?…

Thoughts and Musings

I’m grateful: 1.  For a little girl with hair that spouts like a whale’s sneeze. 2.  For a pastured turkey that glazed succulent and delicious after 12 hours in a…

Thoughts and Musings

I grew up in a desert-scape of rock gardens, cactus blooms, clacking palm fronds, and golden sky-dome.  I grew up in the Arizona desert where we fried eggs on aluminum…

Thoughts and Musings