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It's Thanksgiving Day.  Time for pie.  Oh yeah, and turkey, dressing, cranberries, ham, gravy, assorted casseroles, and those yummy ye...

I woke up the other day sweating, hyperventilating, my heart racing and my brain on high alert. Something is wrong, my mind yelled, and of c...

It's Graduation season, that time of the year when high school and college students finish their schooling and walk across the stage in ...

The San Antonio Scorpions FC, our hometown NASL soccer team, played a match against a major league soccer team, FC Dallas.  (I am pretty su...

Tomorrow we all have to go back to work/school.  A general pall has invaded the house as a result, which is an indicator of how much fun we ...

This is a photograph of my Uncle Mike and Aunt Rosie on their wedding day, circa the late 40s.  See that little kid in the front row, loo...

As I've mentioned before, Zane loves the show Finding Bigfoot .   He's an avid viewer.  We may have to curtail it, however.  On the ...

optional prompt : family My parents came from large families.  My mother is the oldest of eleven children, my father is somewhere in t...

Family was just about everything back before electricity, when you lived and died at the will of your king or queen or chieftain. Loyalty to...

Zane and I went to the park this morning! It was nice and cool, with a bit of a breeze. We walked through the middle of the park, venturing ...

The beach and I have generally had a love-hate relationship. I love walking along the water line early in the morning. I hate stepping o...

My husband has been anticipating this movie, Green Lantern , for months. He dug through his vast collection of comic books to reread the ea...

It was with great sadness that I read about the death of James Arness in the paper the other day. I felt like I was experiencing the end o...

We played a lot of games when I was a kid. That is what kids did back then, of course. There was no Nintendo, or Playstation, or Xbox. Chi...

It's Spring. Easter Sunday. The bluebonnets have bloomed, and other wildflowers are in their full glory. The Glory of the Lord is bei...

One of the biggest issues that a working mom faces is what to do when your child gets sick. On the one hand, the ever present desire of you...

When we were kids, my brother and I were often bullied by other kids. We were always the new kids, and as such were teased and tormented by...