• Mr. and Mrs. Andrew and Corrie P.

    July twenty-third dawned hot and sunny.  Corrie had arranged for all of us ‘maids to spend the morning together at a spa.  Makeup, hair, and nails were on our own dime, so each…

  • THE Wedding of 2011 . . .

    . . . (until November 5 . . .) (when my other sister gets married, of course!) So, I’m not going to tease you.  I’ll go ahead and start this post with a…

  • Careful What You Wish For . . .

    The back pain has settled into a dull, constant ache.  So maybe I preferred the ache-free, sucker-punch-at-any-minute stage more.  I don’t know.  The dull ache sucks.  But it’s an ache that aches in…

  • The Debt Ceiling

    . . . is not going to be the topic of this blog post!  Wa-hey!  Did I trick you? Many of the updates in blogs, facebook, email, legal tabloids, and what-have-you are regarding…

  • This Is Not A Post About A Wedding

    I’m in my parents’ kitchen in Nashville, dropping crumbs of chocolate chip cookie into my baby son’s mouth and monitoring the doneness of some pasta boiling on the stove.  I have begun a…