I was sitting in a meeting last week and others gathered around the conference table kept looking at their phones. After a few minutes someone said, “We should wrap this up because hail and very strong winds are heading our way. We have 20 minutes to get home to safety.” People started gathering their belongings and packing up their bags. Before I could say, “Meeting adjourned,” chairs were being pushed in and lights shut off as people started dashing for their cars. In Texas, when you hear Keep Reading...
Unmet Expectations – A Story for Easter
I’ve lived in towns with interesting names but they always seemed to make sense. Boise. It is a French word for “wooded” and the French trappers used it to describe the trees lining the river flowing through the valley where the city of Boise grew up. Boise is a beautiful, tree-filled city. College Station. In the 1800’s, a little college, now Texas A&M University, sat along the railroad tracks and the train station was the stop for the college. The conductor would call out, “Next Keep Reading...
Today is a BIG Day!
Today is a BIG day! I didn’t know it was a big day. It started out as a regular day. A friend let me know there was a typo on my blog. I tried to blame the web designer and then realized it was something within my control. Not completely my fault but...within my control. So, a quick log into my website turned into a walk down memory lane (to fix the typos) and I realized I started my blog 11 years ago TODAY! Today is the 11thanniversary for my blog. What? On one hand, it seems like I Keep Reading...
What Kim Kardashian and I Have in Common
Do you know what Kim Kardashian and I have in common? We were both sewed into our dresses for an important event. That and the fact we love our kids. But I think the similarities end there. Kim was sewn into her dress for a star-studded event at the New York Met. She borrowed Marilyn Monroe’s dress and starved herself to fit into the form fitting dress. It was so form fitting that she had to be sewn into it. Me? I was throwing on my flowy dress for my niece’s wedding. I asked a daughter to Keep Reading...
My “Not Word” for 2023
While others are posting about their word for the year, I have determined my "not word" for 2023. Hear me loud and clear – I have absolutely NO problem with people having a word that is their focus for the year. I love the idea and fully support it! Unlike those who pick a focus word every year, I don’t pick a "not word" every year. In fact, I have only done it once – in 2019. My "not word" that year was Busy and you can read about it here if you want. Back to my "not word" for 2023. It is Keep Reading...
Joseph Lost His Head
Many years ago I started a blog called Chuckles in the Chaos. I was in the throes of raising three teenage daughters with a husband who traveled for a living so it felt like I was doing it alone. I wasn’t, but it felt that way. Oh, and the dogs. Dogs who ran up my vet bill and chased wild animals into the woods or trapped them under our shed right as I was heading to bed. I started the blog to tell funny stories of our often-chaotic life and try to encourage others along the way. Even if it Keep Reading...
A Sticky Mess
Hey! Remember me? It’s been about four months so you may have forgotten. When I started my blog, oh so many years ago, it was called Chuckles in the Chaos. I said I would only post about once a week. Well, the past few months have been filled with chaos. Some of it I cried about but some of it gave me reason to chuckle. There wasn’t time to write about it or even to figure out what message I wanted to relay. A writer friend of mine who saw the tears and heard the chuckles encouraged me to make Keep Reading...
I’m Rooted and Planted – or Am I?
“Bloom where you are planted” was cross-stitched into a picture and hung in my Gram’s kitchen. My family laughed about it because she wasn’t planted anywhere long enough to bloom. She flipped houses before flipping houses was cool. My grandfather was a true traveling salesman and more than once he returned home on a Friday evening to find a For Salesign in his yard. I thought it was fun to visit a new home nearly every time I visited her and though I have many of her characteristics that is Keep Reading...
Coconut on the Beach and…Thoughts
Late one night. I recently walked on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Just me and my thoughts. And a waterlogged coconut. I stared at the coconut being pushed back and forth by the ebb and flow of the waves as they crashed on the beach and for some reason, I felt the need to throw the coconut back out to sea. I’m not sure why I thought the coconut needed to go “back out to sea” because coconuts don’t come from the sea. Maybe I just wanted it to be free to bob in the ocean and not rot on the Keep Reading...
Searching for Sand Dollars
I can’t believe I haven’t told him before now. I’ve known him for 37 years and haven’t told him a very pivotal story in my life. A turning point. A tipping point. I’ve shared a bed with him for nearly 35 years but I never told him the story until this week. If you haven’t guessed, who “he” is, it’s my hubby. And this week he heard the story. This week we were sitting on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean enjoying some pre work trip together time when I decided to take a nighttime stroll along Keep Reading...
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