I was born wearing glasses. The full head of hair, the colic-y cries and the thick plastic framing my unopened eyes made me easy to pick-out from all the newborns in the hospital’s nursery. “That one is ours!” It made for an interesting delivery story. I had my first eye surgery at age 2, the [...]
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I Also Hate Square Dancing
Posted: January 25, 2012 in Me, Random ThoughtsTags: Bullies, square dancing
“I was traumatized by square dancing.,” I declared in response to a friend who had innocently suggested we “allemande left” to get into a restaurant’s parking lot. I realized the moment she offered to let us “mosey left” instead that I had a story to share. There are actually a few social activities I absolutely [...]
Yesterday, I learned something exciting and fun – that there are ads attached to my blog. Who knew? Well, apparently some of you did. You’d think I’d know this, too since it is my blog, but I had no clue. You see, when I view my blog it’s completely clean and ad free. So, huge [...]
It seems like every time I find a new blog, I also find another author dispensing advice on how to write. It makes me feel like I’ve really let you guys down by not sharing my own bits of writing wisdom. Yet, I applaud you all for continuing to persevere without my keen insights. Still, [...]
Hanging Out with the 1%
Posted: December 12, 2011 in Me, Random ThoughtsTags: 1%, Decadence, Holidays
Saturday night I attended a formal dinner to help out a friend who needed a buffer at her company’s Christmas party. She’s fairly new to Austin, doesn’t know a lot of people thanks to her demanding work schedule and because of improv and my overbearing insistence that we become friends; I was the one person [...]
It’s been said that Dr. Pepper is the table wine of the South, but if that’s the case (and I’m not arguing against it) then iced tea would have to be the water. Every meal is usually accompanied by a cold glass with its condensation building up and slowly dripping down to form a nice [...]
The Season of Giving
Posted: November 30, 2011 in Random ThoughtsTags: beagles, charitable giving, donations, hound rescue
There are many wonderful and worthy charitable organizations in desperate need of volunteers and donations so they can continue to move forward with their missions. The ones that are closest to my heart deal with injustice or cruelty to either people or animals. You can tell a lot about a a society by how it [...]
I know and you know that the quality of the posts lately have been kind of “meh”. I personally blame the quality issue on the people around me. No one is doing anything outrageous. The most exciting interactions I’ve had have been those involving cars and even those are so “meh” they’re hardly worth repeating. [...]
I remember my first high school reunion. I went for the same reason I went to the prom, because I didn’t want to look back with regret at having not done it. It’s not a particularly great reason, but it got me there. The reunion, more than prom, involved a serious self pep-talk. I had [...]
Flags of Our Fathers (and Mothers)
Posted: October 23, 2011 in Random ThoughtsTags: civil war, flags, Texas
My family fought in the Civil War under the Confederate flag and we lost, if that’s how you want to look at it. Personally, I don’t see it that way. My family comes from the south – from South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and eventually landed here in Texas. Our family stories from that time mostly [...]
