Iowa has been invaded. By aliens. Really. I was at a local mall recently and I saw sev­eral. Now when I say “mall” here, lower your ideas about 110% and that is about the size. The mall I was at would fit in a teeny tiny cor­ner of Mall of Amer­ica but we take what […]

A wish for all of you.…That your thanks­giv­ing be safe. That you share it with those near and dear to your heart. That you are able to look at your life and find a kazil­lion things to be thank­ful for even if life, at this moment, is not all you would hope it to be. […]

Well some­times we make mis­takes and they are lit­tle ones. Than we make mis­takes and they are big ones. Depend­ing on who you are, you will think what I did last night I was either stu­pid or brave. I col­ored my hair. Now…I was tired of the grow­ing out gray/tinny blond look although in my […]

Last night, two busi­nesses in the town where my hus­band works, burned down. They are a total loss. One was a resturant/bar, the other a gas station/convenience store right next to it. The bar was the only one in town, the con­vience store was also the only one in town. While they were burn­ing down,  […]

This is just too cute to not pass on. This morn­ing there was a dead mouse on my kitchen floor. Liv­ing in the coun­try, espe­cially in the fall, this is not an uncom­mon expe­ri­ence but usu­ally I find them in the base­ment. It does not upset me to see a dead mouse. I usu­ally pick […]

Over the course of my life, I, unknow­ingly, have had maybe a mil­lion mantras. I say unknow­ingly because it wasn’t until recently that I even learned what mantras were, but hav­ing learned, real­ized that those lit­tle sen­tences I have to say to myself all the time in order to stay sane were, in fact, proably […]