This photo was taken by my camera, yes, but not by me. Second Son went to Ireland, Wales, England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands last summer and this is one of the photos he took in Ireland. So, it’s a photo taken by...

Thirteen Vehicles I Have Owned 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 1998 Pontiac TransSport 1995 Chevy Diesel Dually 1980 Cadillac Sedan DeVille 1995 Chevy S-10 Blazer 1995 Dodge Neon 1995 Chevy Metro 197? Buick Regal 198? Volkswagen Rabbit 1989 Nissan Sentra 1986 Volkswagen Jetta 1973 Volkswagen Bug 1967 Datsun station wagon Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The...

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Two babies, tuckered out. Childhood friends, seeing each other in a new light. (My BFF’s daughter, like a Second Daughter to me, and Oldest Son. BFF and I are laughing because we used to wonder if we’d end up related one day, as close as they were back then. It’s been a rather eventful two weeks around here. More on that later.) Back at...

PDD with her sparkler in the dark on the 4th of...

Thirteen Places I Don’t Care If I See Again or Ever Las Vegas, Nevada (ever) Graceland (again) Detroit, Michigan (again) Niagara Falls, New York (again) I-40 from Memphis, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina (again…ever! lol) Any of the Mexican border towns (ever) Kansas or Nebraska (again) Little Rock, Arkansas (again) Anywhere in the Middle East...

Taken on a flight from Tulsa to Salt Lake City, August of 2006, just after taking...

Last week was all about foreign places I’d like to visit. This week is: Thirteen Domestic Places I’d Like to See Before I Die Anchorage, Alaska New Orleans, Louisiana San Juan, Puerto Rico Vieques, Puerto Rico Napa Valley Little Big Horn Honolulu, Hawaii The Grand Canyon The Painted Desert, New Mexico The Rockies in Colorado San Francisco,...

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Me and mine (from left to right: PDD, Second Son, Oldest Son) taken at my parents’ house yesterday afternoon. (I never pass up an opportunity to get impromptu family pics of my brood. Already, it’s getting difficult to get them all together in one spot.) My younger sister and her family – in Oklahoma on vacation this week (they live in...