I’m laughing to myself as I type these words. I wish I could be on the phone to tell you this story myself because it always makes me laugh. It made Warrior laugh too, after he learned to do Christmas properly, but that first year together...yikes! LOL!!! First Christmases in love are pressure filled. Those first gifts under the tree seem imbued with added, laser focus of sentimentality...at least for women. I was about to get an eye opening presentation of gifts I’d never f

I fell down my stairs the other day. I mean... like a fall that only exists in cartoons; a comical, cartoonish, cartwheel down a flight of hardwood. Ever the Warrior Woman I wasn’t taking this fall lying down! At every bump I grabbed for help, ripping carefully hung garland from the banister in my dive. By the time I reached bottom I was a tangle of branches, twinkle lights, and glitter. Omg...that hurt. Mattie was right behind me and all I could think was, “My god, she’s

Nobody gets exactly what they imagine in life. The best laid plans have twists and turns we never plotted on our carefully designed map. Oddly this fact is part of the beauty in life! Our small scope road map might take us to destinations too dinky for our destiny to be discovered. When a rough road swerves our steering we must hold fast to our North Star...faith. We need to Always Believe! Bad things happen to good people everyday. I know this to be true in the wonderful pe