I love horses...and this right here...this is magnificent. Laura Sumrall and her horse, Wimpy's Top Model, with the winning performance in the 2015 Kentucky Reining Cup. Laura Sumrall & Wimpy's Top Model
I want my legacy to be…
It’s been awhile since I wrote a post for Finish the Sentence Friday…July, in fact. This week’s prompt is too good to pass up though…and since it’s a topic on which I frequently dwell, here goes… I want my legacy to be…boy, there’s a loaded sentence prompt! When I had my first child, twenty-eight years … Continue reading I want my legacy to be…
I want my legacy to be…
It’s been awhile since I wrote a post for Finish the Sentence Friday…July, in fact. This week’s prompt is too good to pass up though…and since it’s a topic on which I frequently dwell, here goes… I want my legacy to be…boy, there’s a loaded sentence prompt! When I had my first child, twenty-eight years … Continue reading I want my legacy to be…
When It Comes to My Emotions and Words…
I think about Stuff a lot - sometimes too much…One of the things that has been popping up unbidden in my head was one particular Saturday when I went to the grocery store.At that point in time, both of my kids were small and I treasured my Time Alone in The Store. So there I … Continue reading When It Comes to My Emotions and Words…
What I Wish The World Knew…
What I wish the world knew...one day there came across my news feed on Facebook a piece about a musical. This was an extraordinary piece about an extraordinary composer - Scott Evans Davis - and a musical he wrote...with the input from the students at P94 School for Autism. Davis interviewed the students and, based … Continue reading What I Wish The World Knew…
When It Comes to More Youthful Days…
When it comes to more youthful days..A friend’s mother once said that she “had no regrets” about losing him at the too-young age of 29. I know that she meant to say that she had no regrets about his life…and I can almost wrap my head around it. Almost…and then I’m inexorably dragged back to … Continue reading When It Comes to More Youthful Days…
My Socialist Great-Grandparents
A long time ago, there was a community known as New Llano Cooperative Colony. Originally founded in 1914 by Job Harriman, a prominent attorney and Socialist, New Llano was first named Llano del Rio and was located in the Antelope Valley near Los Angeles, California. The New Llano Cooperative Colony name change took place when … Continue reading My Socialist Great-Grandparents
When I Grew Up, I Knew…
Ah…being a grownup! I remember when I was a little girl and I thought that teenagers were cool. Cooler than cool. We were living in a dinky little travel trailer in a dinky little trailer park in Anchorage – on Arctic Boulevard. Nothing cool ever happens on Arctic Boulevard, I thought…and then my parents hired … Continue reading When I Grew Up, I Knew…
While I was sleeping, I dreamt…
I have a rich dream life…sadly, most of the time I don’t remember them. But while I was sleeping one night, not so long ago, I dreamt that my father in law was with me. PaPa Gene-O, as my son Rhys always used to call him, died on July 10, 2006 while climbing Flattop. He … Continue reading While I was sleeping, I dreamt…
A Long, Long Time Ago, and Very Far Away, there Lived…
a mom who had two wonderful children named Archibald (Rhys) and Annabel (Kate). They lived in a wild and wonderful castle that they shared with an ogre...A Long, Long Time Ago…and Very Far Away, There Lived…oh, how I miss those stories! We would snuggle up together, my children and I, and I would start off … Continue reading A Long, Long Time Ago, and Very Far Away, there Lived…
LIFE IS LIKE A HAND GRENADE 