How I almost died for cooking oil….

I spent this week in Tennessee with my kids, my brother and his daughter at my grandmother’s house. There are so many stories that I almost couldn’t decide which one to tell you first but thought the one where I was near […]

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Reward for solving mystery

For the past couple of weeks our beloved dog Hoosier has been stalking something in our backyard. It is obviously something nocturnal since he only barks between 3:30 and 5:00 a.m. No matter how fast I leap out of bed and run […]

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For the love of pete I’ll give you the five dollars!!!

Yesterday Ashley and I went to see Julie and Julia. Great movie. Loved it. Almost didn’t make it in time. And here is why: There was a very sweet old lady in line in front of us. She had apparently been so […]

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I love summer…

now but that was not always the case. When the kids were little my friend Tara and I would count down the days until school was out….to see how many more days of freedom we had left. We would make glorious plans […]

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