Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

I married a man obsessed with Texas.  For a while he wanted to live there.  I’ll admit that sometimes when we drive through the state – wealthy, well-run, vast and varied – I compare it to its dumpier, poorer neighbor to its east that we have chosen as our home and I think perhaps I…

I had a business trip to Puerto Rico for a week in March, and my sister came along. Our hotel, the El San Juan, was right on the beach. Really perfect. I arrived midday on Fat Tuesday and checked in, then got unpacked. The room was on the ground level in a separate, one story…

When last I checked in, I had finished up Wednesday’s parades, and we still had Thursday through Tuesday to look forward to. What I think I didn’t mention was that on Fat Tuesday itself, I would be flying off to Puerto Rico for a weeklong conference. So lots of updates to come! Muses on Thursday…

Let’s just do this picture-post style – I’ll post pictures, and captions, and try to sort of tell-ish the story of Mardi Gras 2019, and nobody reading judges my lack of time to edit. Mmmmkay? Mmmkay. First up – I marched in the Chewbacchus Wonder Woman krewe again this year – my second time. As…

We are right in the heart of Mardi Gras, calendar-wise and geographically speaking. Friday night, Cleopatra rolled. Friends came over, the weather was fine – warm, but not too warm. There were lots of breakdowns, so it stopped quite a bit, and in between floats the boys just ran around the street with the neighbors….