It’s a gazillion degrees outside here in New Mexico. We’ve spent weekends in Arizona, Colorado, and Kansas in the past two months, and it’s been H-O-T hot there too. I know it’s not summer for half the world right now, but many of you still know the sticky, sweaty, blazing sun, furnace-blast-to-the-face feeling of a […]
Snow Daze by Deb Kastner
Talk about crazy weather in the US and Canada. Places that never get snow—California, anyone—have been pounded, while Colorado waited…and waited…and waited for even a dusting. We made a new record this year, with a LACK of snowfall well into November, and even then it was less than a quarter of an inch and melted […]
The Summit
Well, I turned forty last weekend. I’m surprisingly okay with that number. I mean, it took a little bit of processing and a whole lot of emotional taking of stock (oh my gosh, <insert life event> happened how long ago?!), but more than anything, I feel like I’m standing on this great mountaintop and I’m […]
Plan Your Summer Book-cation
May is nearly over, people! Can you believe it? The second most jam-packed month of the year is almost done. School will be out soon, vacations are being planned, and the weather is finally warming up after the eternal winter we had this year. Can you tell I’m excited?! I don’t know if you have […]
Sunday Edition – June 4, 2017
Well hello, June. The year is half over. Amazing. This pic is from SEVERAL years ago. The young man in the forefront, struggling with the sand – he’s twenty now. The young lady on the far left is married. The one in the green swimsuit got married yesterday. The boy on the far right will […]
A Cambridge summer – punting, picnics, and happy-ever-afters?
Valerie gave me a hard act to follow with her wonderful post about her story in the Whispers of Love boxed set. Sadly, my story has no goats! It does though, have Cambridge, the beautiful and historic university city where my husband and I spent many hours together in our dating days. For a long time, I’ve wanted […]