The Always Fabulous Kevin sent me this card — it made my day! And truer words have not been written.
Category: This is my life
Erica for vice president
If Sarah Palin can be vice president, then anyone can be vice president. I can be vice president. Palin played basketball in high school — the team won the state title her senior year. Her nickname was “Barracuda.” I was the manager of the girls basketball team my junior year of high school. I was… Continue reading Erica for vice president
Someone fetch the smelling salts
The problem with the great outdoors is the biting bugs. For some reason they all really like to bite me — especially mosquitoes. When I was in the fifth grade, I had a mosquito bite on the back of my leg. Not usual. But it was very, very itchy. I scratched it until it bled.… Continue reading Someone fetch the smelling salts
Where will you be in 10 years?
Remember those life plan papers you had to write in school? In the fourth grade, I said I’d be a writer — a novelist, although I don’t think I knew the word — and married with kids by the time I was 30. I was more concerned with family and 1800s thinking about staying home… Continue reading Where will you be in 10 years?
The family mansion
I’m visiting the family mansion tomorrow. We didn’t know there was a family mansion. I heard about a Civil War re-enactment (I forgot to warn you about the huge nerdiness that this post will include — sorry about that) and looked it up online. Lo and behold, the re-enactment takes place at Hazel Dell in… Continue reading The family mansion