My Love-Hate Relationship with Vogue Magazine
I have made it to page 580 of the gargantuan 902 page September issue of Vogue magazine, and I trying to remember why it is I’m still subscribing to this running advertisement for conspicuous consumption. Initially I subscribed because it was one of the few magazines...
A Legacy of Hunting
My daddy was born in 1913, third of six children, to a family who had to scrape to survive, and at a time when hunting could mean the difference in dried wild plums or meat for supper. So he grew up with a rifle in his hand and an appreciation for the bounty provided...
Oh, The Fun We Had! More Tales From School
I came across a picture from a faculty Christmas party the other day and just had to share it. I believe this would have been our 1995 party and gift exchange. Linda Marr was our high school counselor who would draw names out of a box to match us with a person to give...
Another Good Cat Has Gone to Heaven
We lost Black and White Kitty last Friday. Bill found her little body out by the barn. We don’t know what happened, but the fact that we found the body helped us have closure. Had she just disappeared, I would have found it much harder to deal with her loss....
AJ Earns His Master’s Degree
We had the pleasure on August 3rd of watching our son AJ walk across the stage at Riverbend Center in Austin to receive his Master of Education degree from Concordia University. He earned this degree while teaching elementary physical education for the Dell...
Mari Goes to Aggieland
Today marks the end of week one after Mari’s trip to Aggieland and the Texas A&M vet school where she received top of the line orthopedic surgery to repair the ACL and meniscus in her one hind leg that was about to go out on her. And this begins week two of our...
A Closet of One’s Own
I am now the proud inhabitant of a honkin’ big new closet. A 10 x 16 foot addition to one end of the house, to be exact. And yes, I am aware: if I need a bigger closet, then I no doubt have too much stuff. But more on that subject in a minute. We took down the brick...
Memories and a Coffee Can
Amid the odds and ends that are my sewing supplies is an old steel coffee can full of buttons that I can remember being around forever. It may have belonged to my grandmother, but considering that the Duncan Coffee Company began in Houston, and we lived near Houston...
Thinking About Seeing “Before Midnight?” Don’t Bother
Movie review time. I finally make it to the movie, and wouldn’t know know it- boring beyond belief. I saw this overrated, self-absorbed, talkathon called Before Midnight when I went to the cactus convention in Austin, so it has been nearly a month since I...
Porche-Dog Update
I should have said Destructo Dog the Second. When Mari came to live with us, she earned that designation with her penchant for chewing things. Porche is no slouch in that department, either. And I will get back to that in a minute. Let me remind you that Porche came...
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