“Go back to your books, to your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

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  • Thankful, Tired, and Slightly Overcooked

    Thankful, Tired, and Slightly Overcooked The holidays are coming, my patience is leaving, and somebody better bring bourbon. Every year, right around the beginning of November, I make the same stupid-ass promise to myself. “This year is going to be… Continue reading

    Thankful, Tired, and Slightly Overcooked
  • Supercalifragilisticexpiali-DOH!

    Supercalifragilisticexpiali-DOH! How Julie Andrews Sold Me a Load of Musical Bullshit, and I Bought Every Note. I have a bone to pick with Julie Andrews. Actually, I have two. This woman spent a considerable portion of my childhood convincing me… Continue reading

    Supercalifragilisticexpiali-DOH!
  • Tampons & Barbie Dolls

    Tampons & Barbie Dolls The things nobody tells you about growing up, getting older, and everything in between. There comes a point in your life when you look around and wonder how in the hell you ended up here. Not… Continue reading

    Tampons & Barbie Dolls
  • It’s Shake-N-Bake and I Helped

    It’s Shake-N-Bake and I Helped Making friends at 48 shouldn’t require a résumé, three calendar invitations, and a missing persons report. There was a commercial years ago for Shake ‘N Bake where this adorable little girl proudly announced, “It’s Shake… Continue reading

    It’s Shake-N-Bake and I Helped
  • Rain Man on a Juke Box

    Rainman on a Jukebox The soundtrack of becoming who I was supposed to be—then figuring out who I actually am I have this weird ability to hear a song and immediately remember where I was, who I was with, what… Continue reading

    Rain Man on a Juke Box
  • Apparently I’m a friggin Mushroom!

    Be More Like a Mushroom I’ve been thinking about mushrooms lately. Which, admittedly, is not a sentence I ever expected to write. But there I was, walking around outside, looking down at these weird little bastards popping up everywhere, and… Continue reading

    Apparently I’m a friggin Mushroom!
  • The Path of Originality

    “The deeper you walk into your purpose, the lonelier it can feel… not because you’re lost, but because you’ve outgrown the need for validation. The exceptional rarely fit the mold… they move through doubt, solitude and vision that can’t yet… Continue reading

    The Path of Originality
  • How to rip the band aid off…

    I have come to a point in my journey where I need to sort of open up about the road I have been traveling on. This submission probably will not have any funny quips or goofy ha ha’s, but it… Continue reading

  • My Nipples Love Cashmere

    Effusive adjective expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner.Similar: gushing, gushy, unrestrained GEOLOGY(of igneous rock) poured out when molten and later solidified If there was one word to sum up the life I’ve led… Continue reading

  • Help or Hinder

    I am sitting here trying my damnedest to figure out this foreign world of blogging. Upon the suggestion of several friends and the ingestion of a few anxiety meds, I thought… Why not? So here it is… My first post.… Continue reading