Rockwall, TX (December 15, 2025) – During the holidaze, I’ve a habit of posting my Christmas decor on social media with long descriptive captions. It’s fun for me to find my memories flowing through descriptions of ornaments, centerpiece arrangements, Christmas tree placement. We’ve a lot of memories swirling around Christmastime, don’t we? Not all the […]
ROCKWALL, TX (Nov. 12, 2025) You’ve likely seen columns and photos from me regarding my former garden The Mildscape. I’m sharing this delightful view one final time. I started the garden from bare ground, four and a half years ago. A crew removed the sod, set the stone border, and the first trees were planted. Then […]
ROCKWALL COUNTY, TX (Sept. 19, 2025) It’s a pleasant September morning as I write to you, heralded by the rooster crowing at the appropriate sunrise hour today (sometimes he gets confused on timing.) The garden is amazing in its beauty, and I am thankful for the spectacular season we have had. Blooming is still abundant. […]
ROCKWALL, TX (July 18, 2025) I am still the age of ten within. I feel my youth, in a body that is well into the last third of life. My thoughts are better cultivated now; perspectives developed from years of soaring and sometimes plodding through. My spirit remains a tanned, towheaded sprite leaping from the dock […]
Fate, TX (May 15, 2025) – A pleasant May morning and I am out in the dayspring, listening to birdsong. The feathered kids are cheerfully feisty this morning. Mama Cardinal has been sipping at the hollowed-out watering stone near the Kitty Memorial Garden, and Papa chipped his clipped lingo at the end of the wall […]
Fate, TX (March 5, 2025) – I have been in accomplish and purge mode since January. I hope the urge is over soon, because I am tired. Stuff has been flying around this house, bags filled for donating, closets reorganized. The pantry had been driving me nuts and had evaded conquering. It happened on a […]
Fate, TX (January 13, 2025) – The first snow event of 2025 has passed through North Texas. How did we survive an extra two days in the house? We opened and closed the back door four hundred sixty-two (or so) times for Bob Kilgore. Bob Kilgore is an inside kitty, with a strong desire for […]
Fate, TX (December 4, 2024) – Tucked within every perfect looking life, every beautiful family, everything that looks just so ideal on social media, is the reality of dysfunction. I don’t know a family without it. Mine is no exception. I am as guilty as any of showing all the pretty things, delighting in all […]
Fate, TX (October 28, 2024) – It was a quiet pleasure to wake up to a foggy morning here. The slow start appreciated, as I was up during the night having one of those sleepless times. Not wanting to sit and look at my iPad, I went to the guest room to putter a little […]
Fate, TX (September 9, 2024) – I had lunch with a dear friend the other day. I’ve been kind of absent lately. I know some of y’all have missed me, you’ve told me so. Some weeks the words seem to well up and pour out. Sometimes, as is happening now, the words are hard to […]