that two of your eight great grandparents were born on the same day as you? This genealogy thing rocks. Well, aside from that one distant 60+ year old cousin who is sending me poetry...

Yesterday it was 80. Today... Can you believe that? I even got off work but the kids still had to go to school. Baa-haha! Only in Texas.

Beating Josh at Upwords, and using the words "vomit" and "oboe" to do it.

1. Spotted the first outdoor Christmas lights last night. 2. The Christmas issue of Martha Stewart Living arrived today. 3. I've already updated my Christmas card address list.

Midterms are finally here! It's very possible I might end up being the only one from my place of employment who votes tomorrow, but I know I'm the only one who has looked forward to it for this long. It will be my first time voting in Texas. A place where my vote will probably be more drowned out than it was in Arkansas. That's if "W. Still ...

I just realized that the beginning of the last post didn't come out the way I had intended -- The reason we chose not to partake in the Halloween glory had nothing to do with the types of kids who come to our door. (We give candy to all regardless of race, gender, age, and creed - whatever a creed is). It was purely the desire to be ...

A holiday in which trucks with thunderous bass carrying dozens of children of Mexicano descent fill our streets. Josh and I opted for a lights out Halloween this year. I didn't want to tredge up and down the stairs a zillion times when most of the candy was gone already. Call us party poopers, but I got my Halloween exercising in at work today. Work is not usually ...

It's been a very long time since I last set foot on the soil of my birthplace, that grungy Motor City which now heaves under the weight of more frequent Big 3 layoffs. And even though I now identify myself with other places, like the hills of middle Tennessee, the Natural State and Big D, there's the part of my childhood when I felt nothing more true about ...