This was our trip around the world.  Okay, I know it was only across a few states, but an 8-day road trip is like…forever…for us.  We are the weekend travelers, but we have stepped off the beaten path and gotten adventurous.
First stop:  Waynesville, NC (home of all my nystalgic, sappy, happy childhood memories)  I got [...]

I can honestly say I never dreamed I would EVER be excited about having a bunch of gals over to scrapbook.  Here I am, though, in my 30’s and starved for female companionship.  It is not the scrapping that makes me look forward in anticipation.  If that were true my suitcase full of cardstock paper [...]

I forgot to plan…again.  It’s September 1st and 74 degrees outside, so what do you expect?  The big, bad, looming computer screen glared at me with its dark, tentacle fingers motioning, in its deep, somber voice, “You have work to do!  Don’t think about having fun.  What’s wrong with you?  Snap out of it!”  In [...]

So, really, what compels us to lie?  I know the Scriptures tell us we walk out of the womb lying our brains out.  I picture some punk baby in need of a shave, smoking a pipe, leaning up against the nurse’s station just telling tall tales.  You don’t have to teach a kid to lie.  [...]

I have way too much stuff.  After two days away in a crisp new tent with a leaky blowup mattress, this is what I come up with.  For two days we were able to survive (quite contentedly, I might add) with a pack of paper plates, a cooler full of ice and goodies, some stashed [...]